BANGLADESH NEWS
“The Prime Minister has announced formation of committees to oppress the
opposition. Police are indiscriminately opening fire on the opposition
activists across Bangladesh,” Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin
Farroque told a discussion programme in the city on Saturday.
Sheikh
Hasina has ordered formation of anti-terror committees in the wake of
countrywide violence ‘unleashed by the Jamaat-e-Islami’ after one of its
leaders Delwar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death by the first war
crimes tribunal of Bangladesh.
The Jamaat top notch was given death sentence for crimes against humanity during the nation’s struggle for freedom in 1971.
Farroque
also questioned the intentions of the government as the former offered
to hold talks with the opposition to end the political impasse.
Ruling
Awami League’s General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam
on Thursday said the government was ready to hold talks with the
opposition to pull the country out of the turmoil.
“On the one
hand the government was asking for talks and on the other it was
announcing to form committees to thwart the opposition,” Farroque
alleged.
“This proves the government is not cordial about holding talks,” he added.
The
BNP leader held the government responsible for the recent violent spree
and reiterated his party’s demand for restoring the caretaker
government provision to oversee the national elections. He called for a
bill to be tabled in Parliament to this effect immediately.
He
warned the government not to mistake the BNP as a small party. “It is
not a party of Kolkata’s Theatre Road, it is the party of freedom
fighters.”
Pro-BNP doctors’ panel DAB organised the discussion to
mark the day of imprisonment of party’s senior Vice Chairman Tarique
Rahman.
Tarique was detained on Mar 7, 2007 during the military-backed caretaker
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