The BNP has warned of taking legal steps against two of Awami League’s top brass for their allegations that BNP held secret meetings with the Pakistan Embassy to Bangadesh.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir warned that legal action will be taken against AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader and Joint General Secretary Abdur Rahman unless they redact their statements.
“This is nothing but an attempt to denegrate BNP,” Fakhrul told the media on Monday (Dec 10) at the party chief’s Gulshan office.
“We demand that their comments be withdrawn or we will go for legal actions,” he said.
He said that BNP has always come to office with people’s vote and they have no connections with a particular country or organization.
Saying that the government has resorted to pre-planned and diabolical schemes to drag BNP through the mud, Fakhrul added, “The government’s money is being used to spread these propagandas through social and print media.”
The senior politician alleged that the ruling party workers have over 300 fake Facebook accounts dedicated to spreading rumours about party Chief Khaleda Zia and acting Chaiman Tarique Rahman.
Showing a cartoon of Dr Kamal that the prime minister’s son and ICT Affairs Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy posted, he said, “I don’t think anything of cartoons. However, a lot of our activists have been put behind bars for as long as seven years for making similar cartoons of the PM or AL ministers and leaders.”
Fakhrul called for the media to remain neutral and complained that any BNP clash is highlighted in the media whereas the AL clashes get any coverage at all even if it results in death.
“The upcoming polls will show whether democracy does indeed exist in the country,” he said adding that the judiciary system is being exploited in order to wrongfully imprison BNP leaders and the party is participating in an election with no level playing field and plenty of obstacles.
Slamming the government’s move to shut down 58 news portals in the country, Rizvi said, “Of course we will scrap the Digital Security Law.”
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