Staff Reporter :
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is inciting ‘state-sponsored terrorism’. The BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said this at a discussion on Friday.
He held the PM responsible. He said that the state-sponsored terrorism spread across the country. The PM is provoking her party men for terrorist acts in the pretext of self-defence. The opposition activists and the innocent people are killed every day while the state machinery is being used for committing murder, he alleged.
Dhaka city unit of Jatiya Ganatantrik Party (JAGPA) arranged the discussion at the National Press Club in the city in memory of JAGPA worker Masud Raihan, who was killed during the recent anti-government movement, and other people like him.
JAGPA President Shafiul Alam Pradhan, Secretary General Khandaker Lutfur Rahman, among others, addressed the programme with the city unit President Khan Asadur Rahman in the chair. Pointing to Sheikh Hasina’s recent comment in the Parliament that ‘Chhatra League men have also rights to self-defence’, Mirza Fakhrul said that the PM by her such speech provoked the ruling party men to attack opposition leaders and workers to uphold extrajudicial killing. The PM will be accountable for her provocative speech, he said.
He alleged that the body of a BNP activist was found in Sirajganj on Thursday last. Police picked him up from in front of the High Court in Dhaka. Several days ago RAB picked up a Lakshmipur BNP leader. He was killed too, he claimed. He said that the law enforcers also killed three men arrested on charge of attacking Asaduzzaman Nur’s motorcade. The BNP leader said that his party did not believe in terrorism and it was not involved with any terrorist activities. People know who are patronising anarchy in the country, he said.
He further said that the BNP-led alliance’s decision of boycotting the January-5 ‘one-sided’ polls was right as it has been proved that no fair election is possible under the Awami League government.
He demanded participatory elections under a non-party government to resolve the political crisis.
