‘Govt barred Khoka from returning’
Fakhrul says
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government barred freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka from entering the country when he was alive.
“The government always talks about the spirit of Liberation War, but it did not allow a valiant freedom fighter like Sadeque Hossain Khoka to enter the country when he was alive. We hope such incident will not recur,” he told journalists after placing a wreath at party founder Ziaur Rahman’s grave at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital.
He called upon party leaders and activists to be imbued with the spirit of November 7 to free their chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Fakhrul came up with the statement to mark what they called the “National Revolution and Solidarity Day” while Awami League and its front organisations consider it as a day of “killing freedom fighters”.
Fakhrul along with hundreds of party leaders and activists paid homage to their party founder and late president Ziaur Rahman. They also offered prayers there and sought salvation of Zia’s departed soul.
BNP and its associate bodies chalked out various programmes to observe the day.
Earlier in the morning, the BNP flag was hoisted at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, chairperson’s Gulshan office and other party offices across the country.