UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Wednesday alleged that a minister and a state minister had a tacit support in enforcing the countrywide transport strike that caused immense public sufferings.
“The person backing the transport strike is an influential minister of the government. He is not alone…a state minister is with him. They’ve created an anarchic situation making people the worst sufferers only to protect their own interests,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. He came up with the remarks while speaking at a discussion
arranged by BNP at the Jatiya Press Club in memory of those army officers killed in Pilkhana carnage on February 25-26, 2009.
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation enforced the countrywide indefinite strike on Tuesday protesting two court verdicts-one sentencing a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed for a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier while the other sentencing another drive to death in another case filed over a road accident. About public sufferings, Fakhrul said,
“On my way to the Press Club from Uttara, I’ve seen how people, including women, suffered on roads for lack of public transport…many of them had to go to their destination on foot.” Referring to the killing of a worker in a fight between transport workers and law enforcers in the city, the BNP leader said an unstable and uncertain situation has been prevailing in the country for lack of a representative government. “The government is destroying the country to secure its own and party interests.” He also slammed the government for what he said illogically raising gas tariffs.
Fakhrul alleged that the government is trying to establish its control over the judiciary, law enforcement agencies and the media to restore one-party rule. About their party’s stance on the next general election, he said their party wants the election to be held under a neutral administration which will not try to control the election results. Paying tributes to those killed in BDR mutiny at Pilkhana, he alleged that the incident was carried out as part of a well-designed plot to destroy Bangladesh national security and demoralise its army.
BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and vice chairman Ruhul Alam Chowdhury, among others, addressed the programme.
BNP on Wednesday alleged that a minister and a state minister had a tacit support in enforcing the countrywide transport strike that caused immense public sufferings.
“The person backing the transport strike is an influential minister of the government. He is not alone…a state minister is with him. They’ve created an anarchic situation making people the worst sufferers only to protect their own interests,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. He came up with the remarks while speaking at a discussion
arranged by BNP at the Jatiya Press Club in memory of those army officers killed in Pilkhana carnage on February 25-26, 2009.
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation enforced the countrywide indefinite strike on Tuesday protesting two court verdicts-one sentencing a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed for a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier while the other sentencing another drive to death in another case filed over a road accident. About public sufferings, Fakhrul said,
“On my way to the Press Club from Uttara, I’ve seen how people, including women, suffered on roads for lack of public transport…many of them had to go to their destination on foot.” Referring to the killing of a worker in a fight between transport workers and law enforcers in the city, the BNP leader said an unstable and uncertain situation has been prevailing in the country for lack of a representative government. “The government is destroying the country to secure its own and party interests.” He also slammed the government for what he said illogically raising gas tariffs.
Fakhrul alleged that the government is trying to establish its control over the judiciary, law enforcement agencies and the media to restore one-party rule. About their party’s stance on the next general election, he said their party wants the election to be held under a neutral administration which will not try to control the election results. Paying tributes to those killed in BDR mutiny at Pilkhana, he alleged that the incident was carried out as part of a well-designed plot to destroy Bangladesh national security and demoralise its army.
BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and vice chairman Ruhul Alam Chowdhury, among others, addressed the programme.
