Joynal Abedin Khan :
The slum dwellers, street children and transport workers are being used for torching and vandalizing vehicles, and crude bombs explosion on various establishments and residences across the country during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s ongoing blockade programme, intelligence and political sources said.
The miscreants are committing such crimes after taking money from the government agencies, political parties and various miscreant gangs, they alleged.
“The 20-party alliance has chosen a technique to active the slum dwellers, street children and transport workers for torching and vandalizing vehicles and crude bombs explosion on various establishments during their blockade programme. They also paid them Tk 400 to Tk 1,000 per incident according to the contract by local leaders and activists,” a high official of National Intelligence Agency (NSI) told The New Nation recently.
The miscreants normally committed such crimes by taking money from political parties during any hartal, blockade and demonstration programmes, the NSI official said.
An Assistant Commissioner of the Detective Police (DB) told this reporter that the miscreants torched vehicles as per planned strategy and managed to flee the spot instantly.
Saidur Rahman, Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said that adequate number of law enforcers, including police personnel, have been deployed on the city streets as part of the tight security measure.
Minister Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor told the New Nation that the BNP-Jamaat men are torching vehicles and blasting bombs across the country with a view to making the country a militant one.
In this context, he said that a series of bomb blasts have taken place in different parts of the capital and poor people are being used to do such incidents in exchange for money.
Replying a question, the minister said that police are on alert as intelligence agencies had information about the possibility of such violence.
The BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed strongly criticised the government’s attempt to foil the 20-party alliance’s blockade programme. He alleged that the government agents are hurling petrol bombs at public vehicles and carrying out other subversive activities during the blockade programme.
He claimed that the government agencies have set the street children and bus staff to set fire on vehicles and others arson attacks throughout the country.
“The government has once again indulged in its old dirty game as it did before the January-5 election. The government is torching public vehicles to shift the blame onto the BNP-led 20-party alliance,” he claimed.
BNP standing committee member Tariqul Islam alleged that the government agents were torching vehicles and the blame was being shifted to the opposition with a view to oppressing the opposition leaders and workers.
Dhaka University Professor Anisuzzaman said that instead of playing blame game the government and all political parties should come up to resolve the present political impasse.
Dhaka University Professor Mezba Kamal said that the nation has been made hostage by the two major parties.
The slum dwellers, street children and transport workers are being used for torching and vandalizing vehicles, and crude bombs explosion on various establishments and residences across the country during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s ongoing blockade programme, intelligence and political sources said.
The miscreants are committing such crimes after taking money from the government agencies, political parties and various miscreant gangs, they alleged.
“The 20-party alliance has chosen a technique to active the slum dwellers, street children and transport workers for torching and vandalizing vehicles and crude bombs explosion on various establishments during their blockade programme. They also paid them Tk 400 to Tk 1,000 per incident according to the contract by local leaders and activists,” a high official of National Intelligence Agency (NSI) told The New Nation recently.
The miscreants normally committed such crimes by taking money from political parties during any hartal, blockade and demonstration programmes, the NSI official said.
An Assistant Commissioner of the Detective Police (DB) told this reporter that the miscreants torched vehicles as per planned strategy and managed to flee the spot instantly.
Saidur Rahman, Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said that adequate number of law enforcers, including police personnel, have been deployed on the city streets as part of the tight security measure.
Minister Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor told the New Nation that the BNP-Jamaat men are torching vehicles and blasting bombs across the country with a view to making the country a militant one.
In this context, he said that a series of bomb blasts have taken place in different parts of the capital and poor people are being used to do such incidents in exchange for money.
Replying a question, the minister said that police are on alert as intelligence agencies had information about the possibility of such violence.
The BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed strongly criticised the government’s attempt to foil the 20-party alliance’s blockade programme. He alleged that the government agents are hurling petrol bombs at public vehicles and carrying out other subversive activities during the blockade programme.
He claimed that the government agencies have set the street children and bus staff to set fire on vehicles and others arson attacks throughout the country.
“The government has once again indulged in its old dirty game as it did before the January-5 election. The government is torching public vehicles to shift the blame onto the BNP-led 20-party alliance,” he claimed.
BNP standing committee member Tariqul Islam alleged that the government agents were torching vehicles and the blame was being shifted to the opposition with a view to oppressing the opposition leaders and workers.
Dhaka University Professor Anisuzzaman said that instead of playing blame game the government and all political parties should come up to resolve the present political impasse.
Dhaka University Professor Mezba Kamal said that the nation has been made hostage by the two major parties.
