DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday (January 13) claimed that people of the country was disappointed as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not give any instruction to solve the current political crisis in her address to the nation.

However, the PM addressed the nation on Tuesday (January 12) to mark the two years of forming the incumbent government.

BNP senior leader came up with this assertion at a press conference at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area at noon.

He said the ruling Awami League had killed democracy by forming a ‘strange government’ on January 12 in 2014.

According to Fakhrul, the upazila, Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporation and at last municipality polls in past year proved that no free and fair election can be possible under this government.

They are trying to hold power by using all government organizations, creating terrorism and giving fake votes.

‘The primer did not give any instruction to make Election Commission (EC) free from corruption and acceptable to all,’ Fakhrul added.

Giving several examples of the current government’s repression the BNP leader said that according to the estimate so far 440 people were victims of political murder.

He further said that at least 267 were kidnapped and 337 injured during the AL rule in past two years.

‘As many as and 21,083 cases have been filed against opposition party leaders,’ he said adding, ‘the number of accused is around 4 lakhs and some 17,787 people are in jail for political reasons’.

BNP standing committee members Dr Abdul Moin Khan and Nazrul Islam Khan, joint secretary general Mohammad Shahjahal and assistant publicity secretary Imran Saleh Prince, among others, were present at the conference.

BDST: 1944 HRS, JAN 13, 2016
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