BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday warned that the ongoing movement cannot be suppressed by threatening to send the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia back in jail, reports UNB.
He made this remark at the chairperson's office in Gulshan in a response to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's statement that Khaleda Zia will be sent back to jail again if BNP does excesses in the name of movement.
Fakhrul said, “At a time when the country is going through extreme mismanagement, extreme economic and political crisis, she (the Prime Minister) is making such a threat - if she thinks it will disrupt or suppress the movement of democracy, then she is not living in the right place.”
No one will be able to suppress this movement of the people. People are fighting for their rights, he added. “Such threats will do nothing to this movement.”
"Her (Prime Minister's) statement has proved that they are vengeful and they do not believe in democracy and independence of the judiciary."
It is because of political vendetta that PM Hasina made such statements and in such a situation, he added.
Fakhrul said it is the Awami League government which is crossing their limits. “They are the ones who destroyed the democracy today by creating state terror and they are completely using their terrorists to obstruct us from holding rallies, our constitutional right.”
“Have you seen in any civilized country that the government goes on strike?” Fakhrul said, adding that the transport movement had been stopped five days before our rally in Barishal.
The launch and speedboat services from Patuakhali to Barishal has stopped. “How do you explain it?” he asked.
The AL govt is trying to come back to power by holding a fake election again, he added.
The BNP secretary general said, 'People have woken up now, people will not allow all these fraudulent activities to happen. They are determined to bring back democracy at any cost.”
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