Khaleda demands party men's release
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said militants were members of the ruling Awami League and the country would become secure if the party's supporters were brought to book.
“We had asked them to arrest militants and we are in favour of tracking down extremists and we strongly support it,” she told an Iftar in the Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium.
“It is a party of militants as local and foreign arms, ammunition and explosive are recovered from the possessions of its leaders and activists,” she told the programme organised by factions of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists.
Khaleda alleged that nearly 15,000 innocent people, including 3,000 BNP leaders and activists, were arrested under the pretext of a crackdown on militants and demanded that they immediately be released.
She claimed that Jatiya Press Club had been “captured” and journalists were being barred from holding Iftars there.
She said “a grand festival” was ongoing with the ruling party men grabbing people's land, houses and property and plundering banks and other institutions as an illegal and unelected government was in power.
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