AL brought dictatorship title for country
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BNP Standing Committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain at a huge rally in Sylhet city yesterday said, “The country had a corrupt title before. Now they've brought a dictatorship title [for it].”
BNP's Sylhet metropolitan and district units under Sylhet division organised the rally at the city's Registry Field in Bandarbazar to press home their demand of party chief Khaleda Zia's release from jail.
The present government is not an elected one as she (Sheikh Hasina) cheated the people in the name of national election in 2014, Mosharraf said.
People's right to vote has been taken away in that eyewash election and “we have to bring back that right,” he added.
Demanding Khaleda Zia's prompt release from Jail, Mosharraf said, “They tried to weaken BNP, but they failed. BNP is now united and organised”. BNP Standing Committee members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, BNP chairperson's Adviser Amanullah Aman, senior leader Barkatullah Bulu, Student Affairs Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie also spoke among others.
BNP Sectary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir could not attend the rally due to his mother's illness, Dr Shakhawat Hasan Jibon, central organising secretary, said.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) neither approved nor obstructed the rally at the venue although BNP had applied for permission at the venue.
Ali Ahmed, general secretary of Sylhet district BNP, said, “We had planned the rally at Court Point area, but we didn't get permission. Then we applied for the Registry Field, but they [SMP] didn't respond… So, we organised the rally [at Registry Field] as planned.”
Muhammad Abdul Wahab, SMP additional deputy commissioner (media), confirmed that they did not give any “official permission” to BNP for any rally at any place.
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