Condemning the killing Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Abrar Fahad, the BNP alleged that he was killed by pro-ruling party elements for protesting the government’s ‘anti-state deal’ with India.
“Abrarwas killed in a barbaric way by armed terrorists as raise his voice against the Awami League administration’s anti-state deal with India,” its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement sent to the media on Monday (Oct 7).
Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineering, was found dead in the stairway in the early hours of Monday. A resident of Sher-e-Bangla Hall, Abrar was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday, said police, quoting the students of the hall. Later, his body was found on the first-floor stairway of the hall at 2am on Monday.
“Abrar’s killing proves that the government wants to silence any voice raised against it,” the statement quoted Mirza Fakhrul.
The country is now being governed by the ‘law of the jungle’, said the BNP leader before adding: “It seems that we are living in the valley of death.”