BNP lost confidence in apex court

BNP yesterday termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's regime the "worst-ever autocracy" in the world and said the party had lost faith in the Supreme Court because it turned down Khaleda Zia's leave to appeal petitions challenging her "false trials" in graft cases.
“We went to the Supreme Court... But the court rejected our pleas. We aren't frustrated; we're aggrieved and our confidence in the apex court has been shattered,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

He was addressing a discussion at the capital's Jatiya Press Club on the 24th death anniversary of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, a protest leader during HM Ershad's autocracy.
Criticising the ruling party for claiming that the people have accepted the January 5 national election and the government, Fakhrul said this government had been endorsed by no foreign country, let alone by the country's people.
He urged the government to test its "popularity" by holding an election under a non-party administration. “I personally commit that I will quit politics if people don't vote us,” he said.
The BNP spokesperson added the government had taken control of the administration and the judiciary to found a one-party Baksal rule.
Fakhrul called the incumbent government worse than Ershad's autocracy.
“Awami League is the national betrayer. They double-crossed the nation by holding a farcical and voter-less election on January 5,” he said.