Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: BNP has slammed the government for filing “politically motivated case” against its senior leaders including party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and said it is a part of a plan to hold a lopsided election.
“The government is stepping forward with a plan to hold a unilateral, silent election without people’s participation. And we think, the filing of the case is the first part of the strategy,” BNP Senior Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed said today.
Apart from Fakhrul, BNP top leaders including standing committee members Moudud Ahmed, Nazrul Islam Khan, Mirza Abbas, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Moyeen Khan and 45 others were sued yesterday for “instigating” subversive activities, hours after the party staged a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan and asked its activists to prepare for both movement and elections.
Speaking at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, Rizvi strongly protested and condemned the government for filing such case and asked it to withdraw the case immediately.
“The case is totally false, fabricated and conspiratorial,” Rizvi said adding that the government has unleashed the acts of such dangerous repression and oppression sensing its absolute debacle in the forthcoming general election.
He said police are always ready to cook up “fictitious stories” to arrest BNP leaders and activists according to a “pre-planned format”.
The government has unveiled its attitude to hold a stage-managed one-sided national election by filing the case, the BNP leader alleged.
“It is a clear manifestation that the government doesn’t want to hold the next general election in an inclusive manner,” he said.
About the recently passed Digital Security Act, he said the act has been incorporated in a bid to gag the mass media and people’s voices indeed.
