BNP blames BCL, Jubo League for Eid cattle hijacking

BNP yesterday accused the ruling party men of looting sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

“All the cattle markets in the country have been leased to the Chhatra League and Jubo League men, and they are looting sacrificial animals everywhere,” BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said at a press conference at the party's Naya Paltan central office.

He said people's miseries would increase manifold due to an increase in the cattle price because of the extortion of cattle traders by the ruling Awami League people.

Pointing to the robbery of cattle traders and their sacrificial animals in different parts of the country, Ripon said, law enforcing agencies in many cases are patronising the ruling party cadres in committing such criminal activities.

Pointing to murder of three locals in the hands of law enforcement agencies at Kalihati, Ripon lambasted the police force saying that such incident took place due to their excess.

“Law enforcement agencies killed three people like birds. It seems the lives of people are less valuable than birds',” he added.

At least three people were shot to death in Kalihati upazila of Tangail on September 18 as police opened fire on a clash with locals protesting the brutal assault of a woman and her son.

The incident left at least 32 others injured, and they include three cops and three bullet-hit locals.