UNB, Dhaka :
BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday said the media in Bangladesh cannot play the due role now as various state agencies are controlling them.
“It’s now impossible for the media to play its due role. The media freedom has been snatched the way our voting and basic rights had been snatched,” he said.
Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader further
said, “On this day (in 1975), they (AL) gaged the media by introducing one-party Baksal rule. After the 45 years, the same ghost of the one-party rule is now again regulating the media.”
Labour Party, one of the components of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, arranged the programme at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), marking June 16 as the black day for newspapers.
Khosru, a BNP standing committee member, said Awami League stifled media in 1975 by formulating a law. “But, now they’re doing it by creating some media with their patronage, and using the state agencies.
BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday said the media in Bangladesh cannot play the due role now as various state agencies are controlling them.
“It’s now impossible for the media to play its due role. The media freedom has been snatched the way our voting and basic rights had been snatched,” he said.
Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader further
said, “On this day (in 1975), they (AL) gaged the media by introducing one-party Baksal rule. After the 45 years, the same ghost of the one-party rule is now again regulating the media.”
Labour Party, one of the components of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, arranged the programme at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), marking June 16 as the black day for newspapers.
Khosru, a BNP standing committee member, said Awami League stifled media in 1975 by formulating a law. “But, now they’re doing it by creating some media with their patronage, and using the state agencies.
