Issuing a note of warning BNP yesterday said the government would see its “political funeral” done once it arrested party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
“The government elected in a voter-less election believes that 20-party’s movement would end if Begum Khaleda Zia was arrested, Ruhul Kabir Riavi, joint secretary general of the party, said at a press release.
But they have forgotten that BNP activists are moving ahead with the blockade programme even after so-called gunfight and crossfire, he said.
“Arrest of Begum Zia will lead to the political funeral of the incumbent illegal government,” he warned.
The release signed by BNP Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony, said: “The whole state has been politicised and in such a system legal procedure – from arrest to judgment – means ‘implementation of prime minister’s order’.”
But Awami League should not forget that people of Bangladesh are the judges and they are the owner of the country, Rizvi said.
The BNP leader alleged that the “illegal government” has done everything possible to destroy the BNP since it assumed office.
Awami League’s publicly declared programme is to “abduct” BNP leaders and activists and then “kill” them, he alleged.
Awami League is going to restore Baksal and that’s why its is plotting to arrest Khaleda Zia and asked the media to publish only the government’s messages.
Rizvi alleged that the parliament had turned into a second office or a club of the grand-alliance government where its leaders are engaged in a competition to hurl abusive words at Zia family.
Top officials of the government are asking police to shoot in the chest and detective police are killing opposition leaders and activists in the name of “gunfight” story with the state minister hailing the action of law enforcers.