Top leaders of the opposition Jatiya Party have labeled the BNP's 27-point outline, declared in the name of repairing the country, an attempt to deceive the people.
Two influential JaPa MPs yesterday told Dhaka Tribune that there must be a conspiracy behind the BNP's declaration. They said JaPa would discuss the matter in the party forum and give a formal response.
Opposition Chief Whip and former JaPa secretary general Moshiur Rahman Ranga yesterday said that the BNP's declaration of state reform was a way to hide its misdeeds and return to power by any means.
“It's like the devil listening to the scriptures. The people of the country will never allow the BNP to realize its dream,” Ranga told Dhaka Tribune.
The BNP leaders should see their faces in the mirror, he added.
Ranga recalled that after the BNP came to power in 2001, his only child had been abducted along with caretaker Akbar Hossain and the car driver by the BNP's criminals from Dhaka's Shanir Akhara. “A day later, the caretaker was brutally beaten to death.”
The JaPa lawmaker alleged that the BNP activists had occupied his residence in Gangachhara of Rangpur for five months.
“I filed a case but did not get justice. I also sought justice from the then prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as an MP in the case of my son's kidnapping and the caretaker's killing. Khaleda Zia did not take action even after the matter had been raised several times in Parliament.”
He said that by declaring the outlines to reform the state, the BNP wanted to divert the people's attention away from the killings and looting it had committed from 2001 onwards.
