BNP standing committee member MK Anwar, who has remained silent for a long time after his release from jail, yesterday urged the government to arrest his party men if anyone of them was involved with the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj.
He came up with the statement as a cabinet minister alleged that BNP men were involved with the Narayanganj killing.
“I want to say that not the BNP men rather Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League were involved with the killing. If any BNP man was involved with the killing, arrest him,” Anwar told a roundtable discussion.
“The country has now turned a death valley,” he said while addressing the roundtable discussion organised by Swadhinata Forum at the National Press Club.
Pointing his accusing finger at a former chief justice who ordered annulment of the caretaker government system, the BNP leader said the government along with a former chief justice was responsible for the country’s existing situation.
He added: “A former justice through a verdict scratched an amendment from the constitution and snatched the fundamental and voting rights of people. The more days the constitution will remain, the country will not see any development. So, the constitution should have to be thrown into the dustbin.”
The former bureaucrat said the administration had collapsed just because of a huge number of OSDs (Officers on Special Duty) and the anti-corruption commission was issuing certificates to only those, whom the government wants to see corruption-free.
“In the way the government has damaged all the basic organs of the state,” he said and hoped that people of the country would raise their voice and then none could stop them. “So, there is nothing to get frustrated rather people have to move forward.”
Urging the prime minister to step down from the office he said, “Resign immediately, otherwise you have to pay the price.”
Former chief election commissioner Abdur Rauf also spoke at the discussion meeting.
