UNB, Dhaka :
Announcing that she herself will take to the streets together with people, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday issued an ‘organisational red alert’ across the country to put up a resistance against killing, abduction and forced disappearance.
“It’s pointless to seek security for people from this government. Now a strong resistance must be put up… I’ll myself take to the streets together with people to save the country, its people and democracy from the grasp of this killer regime… I urge all the leaders and activists of BNP and the 19-party alliance to remain ready and alert across the country,” she told a May Day rally in the city.
Khaleda continued: “I issue an organisational red alert so that BNP and 19-party men can get ready and take to the streets responding to the call I will make in due time. You’ll stay united to resist the incidents of abduction and forced disappearance.”
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the workers’ associate body of BNP, organised the rally at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan.
The BNP chairperson also urged her party and the alliance activists to give a thrashing if anybody, including Rab and police men, comes to illegally pick up anyone. “Encircle and capture those who will come to make people disappear and hand them over to the law enforcers.”
She alleged that the ruling party men are involved in the incidents of killing, forced disappearance and abduction. “So many people have been killed and made disappeared but the government is not taking any action against anyone.
Even no one is held for killing and forced disappearance as the government itself let loose its people to indulge in such acts.”
