AL regime killing BNP men

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that many leaders and activists of her party became victims of “forced disappearances, abductions and secret killings” after the Awami League came to power.

“Around 50,000 leaders and activists of the opposition party are now in jail and thousands more are passing their days in miserable conditions after being implicated in false cases,” she said in a statement, circulated on UN-declared "Anti-Repression Day".

The former premier said the government was suppressing their movement for a caretaker administration in a "fascist" style.

Meanwhile, BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon yesterday said the government was crippling local government bodies through politicisation by removing the opposition-backed elected representatives for "fabricated" charges.

“The opposition-supported elected public representatives are being removed from local government bodies, including upazilas and municipalities... The ruling party-backed representatives are being installed in those posts,” he told journalists at Nayapaltan. 

He said as a result of this politicisation, the local government system was breaking down. "They are deliberately crippling the local government institutions.”