BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said the future of the current Awami League government appears dim as the country's crisis has deepened further after the 12th parliamentary election.
Speaking at a press conference, he also accused the government of using the judiciary as a tool to implement its depoliticization agenda by arbitrarily convicting and imprisoning opposition leaders and activists in a bid to consolidate power, reports UNB.
“I would like to say that they (govt) have a false belief that it has overcome the crisis. But I say the crisis has only deepened further in the aftermath of the last (national) election. If you still don’t realise this reality and make efforts to address the crisis, then your future is rather bleak."
The press conference was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office to inform journalists about the decisions made during a virtual meeting of the party's Standing Committee on May 8.
Fakhrul said their standing committee meeting strongly denounced the process of unilaterally trying and sentencing leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies.
He claimed that over 2,000 opposition leaders and activists have been jailed in completely false, fabricated, and fictitious cases as part of the government’s efforts to eliminate the opposition political parties and send the country's politics into exile.
“The court is the last resort of people, but they are not finding remedies there.”
The BNP leader alleged that a vested group has been empowered in the country by the government, providing them with opportunities to amass wealth through various forms of corruption and irregularities. “They have orchestrated a scheme of plunder to keep this regime in power using it.”
He said the looters belonging to the ruling party are siphoning off huge money abroad, destroying the economy of Bangladesh.
Fakhrul alleged that the government is making Bangladesh financially dependent on others allowing a particular quarter to plunder public money and avail of different financial benefits illegally through corruption and irregularities.
"It has already been proven that Bangladesh has become a failed state…when a country’s economic backbone is broken and its political and social structures are ruined for a lack of accountability, then it turns into a failed state. Anarchy has now been prevailing throughout the country," he observed.
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