Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Wednesday said that movements like 1969 and 1990 would be launched to oust the incumbent ‘autocratic’ government.
“It had not been possible anywhere in the world to oust any autocratic government through peaceful movement. Similarly it will not be possible in Bangladesh also. In such situation, appropriate steps would be taken at right time for ousting the ‘autocratic’ government,” said BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed in a press briefing in the party’s Nayapaltan central office on the day.
He also said that realistic programme has to be given for freeing the party’s chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia from prison.
The BNP has also accused the ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader for asking police to confine Barrister Moudud Ahmed at his village home in Noakhali on the Eid-ul-Fitr day.
He was unable to meet party men and workers at local Eid ground and exchange greetings with them as a result of it.
Moudud Ahmed claimed that he was certainly confined by police at the instruction of Awami League General Secretary.
The BNP senior leader said that police told him that they were obeying the instruction of a minister, who also comes fro the locality.
Moudud Ahmed said he was not allowed to go to the main Eid congregation in the locality as police raised a barricade in front of his house, restricting his movement.
He later joined the Eid prayer in a mosque near his residence. The BNP leader also said he could not meet the common people and party men in his constituency who elected him lawmaker many times.
Former MPs from Noakhali, Lakshmipur and Feni, and BNP leaders including Mohammad Shahjahan, Barkatullah Bulu, Zainul Abdin Farrooque, Abul Khayer Bhuiyan, Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie condemned the police action, for barring Moudud Ahmed in his locality.
BNP Joint Secretary General Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon urged Obaidul Quader at least to make an apology to Moudud Ahmed for this.
