It’s unprecedented: Khaleda
It’s unprecedented: Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has strongly condemned the authorities’ move to stop the utility services to her Gulshan office, terming it “cruel and the worst behaviour of the government”.
“I am shocked … I have no words to react,” Khaleda said about severing the electricity, cable, internet, land and mobile phone connections at her office.
Lambasting the authorities for the action, the BNP chief said, “A civil government cannot do this… it is beyond the imagination in a civil society.”
“Cutting off power, cable and internet lines without any notice is violation of my civil and human rights,” Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel, press secretary to Khaleda, quoted her as telling BNP leaders present at her office in the evening.
Bringing reference to an action of the authorities in 2013 when sand-laden trucks were placed in front of her Gulshan office to restrict her movement before the January 5 controversial election, she said, “This time, the government has set an example of worse incident”.
Sohel called a sect of journalists inside the office and briefed them on the former prime minister’s reaction.