BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is concealing the evidence of violence and killings that happened during the student movement.
“The government is hiding barbaric and heinous incidents that happened throughout the country and its evil-efforts from the entire world through shutting down internet in a planned way,” he said.
In a statement, the BNP leader further said, “The evidence of casualties are being hidden.”
Fakhrul also trashed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s statements involving BNP with the violence. “The remarks the Prime Minister made yesterday (Monday) about BNP are completely baseless, fictitious and tantamount to axing BNP’s ideals. We strongly condemn it.”
Narrating that BNP is the largest and the most popular democratic party in Bangladesh, he said this party came to power with public always with public mandate. “So, BNP can never take a position against the country’s people,” he added.
The BNP leader also said the government’s “brutal and aggressive” role in suppressing the students’ movement is unprecedented in the world.
Claiming that over 150 students and people were brutally killed across the country during the student agitation for quota reformation in civil service, he demanded bringing the attackers and killers to justice immediately.
“Such indiscriminate killings didn’t occur even during the colonial British rule, Pakistan rule and autocratic regime of HM Ershad,” claimed the BNP secretary general.
The way the officers of administration are making statements to suppress the student movement, Fakhrul said it gives an impression that they are holding positions in the ruling party.
He said the people are being subjected to serious sufferings as the government imposed curfew deploying the army to take revenge on the people.
Fakhrul said the rule of law and good governance can’t be established in the country without the resignation of the fascist regime and restoration of democracy.
The statement was issued protesting the arrest of some opposition leaders and attack on BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy’s Nayapaltan political office allegedly by ruling party activists.
Fakhrul demanded the withdrawal of “false and fabricated” cases filed against BNP leaders and their release.
