Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that India’s National Register for Citizens (NRC) and the new citizenship law would create instability in the South Asian region.
He said, “We believe that the NRC of India’s Assam is a threat to independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh.”
Fakhrul said this at a press conference in the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan offices on Sunday afternoon.
The BNP leader said that demonstrations across India against the disputed new law would gradually make the whole region instable.
He said that the common belief is that the NRC and the new law target the minority Muslims of the country.
Mirza Fakhrul said, at least 23 people have died in India during clashes with police as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in towns and cities across the country to protest new citizenship law, according to media reports.
“Indian police try to aim at suppression demonstrations against the citizenship law that, critics say, has undermined the country’s secular Constitution.”
More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in last 10 days and some 4,000 people were released after arrest, said officials.
Mirza Fakhrul slammed Indian Home Minister and ruling BJP President Amit Shah for his recent remarks on minorities being persecuted in Bangladesh during BNP regimes. He said, “We outright reject his statement,”
In spite of days of violent protests, Indain Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday defended the new citizenship law, which critics say discriminates against Muslims.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr. Abdul Moin Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Begum Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmood Tuku were present at the press conference.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that India’s National Register for Citizens (NRC) and the new citizenship law would create instability in the South Asian region.
He said, “We believe that the NRC of India’s Assam is a threat to independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh.”
Fakhrul said this at a press conference in the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan offices on Sunday afternoon.
The BNP leader said that demonstrations across India against the disputed new law would gradually make the whole region instable.
He said that the common belief is that the NRC and the new law target the minority Muslims of the country.
Mirza Fakhrul said, at least 23 people have died in India during clashes with police as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in towns and cities across the country to protest new citizenship law, according to media reports.
“Indian police try to aim at suppression demonstrations against the citizenship law that, critics say, has undermined the country’s secular Constitution.”
More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in last 10 days and some 4,000 people were released after arrest, said officials.
Mirza Fakhrul slammed Indian Home Minister and ruling BJP President Amit Shah for his recent remarks on minorities being persecuted in Bangladesh during BNP regimes. He said, “We outright reject his statement,”
In spite of days of violent protests, Indain Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday defended the new citizenship law, which critics say discriminates against Muslims.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr. Abdul Moin Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Begum Selima Rahman and Iqbal Hasan Mahmood Tuku were present at the press conference.
