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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday urged the government to immediately free the party's ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia without any conditions attached.
Otherwise he warned of dire consequences.
“We would like to clearly say, free our leader immediately (without any conditions).' Otherwise, you have to get ready for any consequence,” he told a mammoth rally in the capital, the BNP’s largest public show of strength this year, that started with party boycotting the January 7 election, reports UNB.
He also said the country’s people will no longer let Khaleda stay in jail.
Stating that the country is not safe in the hands of the current 'looter regime', he called upon the country’s people to take to the streets to remove Awami League from power.
He also said their party will intensify the movement to protect the country from Awami League’s misrule and restore people’s lost rights.
Fakhrul said the government has jailed Khaleda and many BNP leaders with an intention to obliterate democracy.
Recalling the BNP chief’s role in different democratic movements, Fakhrul said there is no scope to separate Khaleda and the country's democracy.
BNP arranged the rally in front of its Nayapaltan central office, demanding the unconditional release of Khaleda Zia with standing committee member Mirza Abbas in the chair.
BNP standing committee members Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, and Begum Selima Rahman, among others, addressed the rally.
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