It is now trying to destabilise the government and tarnish the country's image abroad, he said while addressing a conference of Jatyotabadi Sechchasebok Dal, a front of ruling BNP, held at the municipal auditorium here.

Milon said the caretaker government issue is a settled one. Laws on caretaker government were framed as per AL demand and it had accepted it. It is now trying to befool the people by demanding reforms in the caretaker government, he said.

Turning to law and order, he said Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) is doing an 'excellent job', and its performance is appreciated by people.

"We believe criminals have no political ideology. Whenever a criminal dies in crossfire with RAB, Awami League leaders start a chorus of human rights.

"Why they should do so if they do not shelter criminals?"

Milon said Bangladesh got foreign investment offers involving about twelve billion US dollars in three and a half years since takeover by the present government, which was only three and a half billion in last thirty years. This is a great achievement by the present government, he said.

The conference, held after more than a decade, was inaugurated earlier by Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, central president of the front.

Presided over by its Nilphamari district unit president Razzakul Islam Raza, it was addressed by, among others, its central vice-president Delwar Hossen and district BNP secretary Anisul Arefin Chowdhury.