Md Akmal
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Dhaka, Aug 26 (UNB) - Opposition BNP today alleged that the government restricted street agitation to stifle the people’s voice against its anti-national deals with India. Addressing a rally at Muktangon in the city BNP leaders demanded complete release of Arafat Rahman Koko by withdrawing the government decision to cancel his parole.
The rally was organized to protest the cancellation of Koko’s parole and 'fabricated and false' propaganda against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman. Unlike in the past, leaders and workers of BNP and its front and associate organizations thronged the rally venue in small groups, not in slogan-raising procession, to avoid police action. Some groups of activists were seen entered the Muktangon in procession made up just near the venue. DMP has restricted processions and rallies on the streets to avoid traffic jam in the capital.
Addressing the rally Khandaker Mosharraf said Awami League has proved itself fascist and undemocratic by imposing restriction on street procession and rallies. Now it has been proved that the government is running the country in autocratic way in guise of democracy, he said.
He said borders are now unprotected, the country’s independence and sovereignty are at risk, the government is involved in activities against the national interest, it failed to oppose the Indian move to construct Tipaimuk Dam over the Borak river across Sylhet.
Mosharraf said restriction on street rallies and procession was imposed to stifle the people’s voice against providing transit and corridor facility to India.
He protested the evil propaganda against Tarique Rahman and asked the government to refrain from politics of vendetta as it can’t bring peace and political stability in the country. The BNP leader said people took to the street against the government misdeeds and its conspiracy against the Zia family, nationalist and patriotic democratic forces so that people cannot be united. Mosharraf called upon the party leaders and workers to prepare for launching a vigorous movement under the leadership of Khaleda Zia to save the country and its people.
BNP senior joint secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called for unity of all nationalist and patriotic democratic forces to resist the 'fascist activities as well as design to establish one-party BKSAL rule'. He said the Awami League government after assuming in power has given top priority in eliminating the opposition.
JCD president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku said they will forego celebration of Eid and take to the street if the demand of restoration of parole to Koko is not accepted. Presided over by BNP vice-chairman Air-vice Marshal (Retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, the rally was addressed, among others, by Fazlul Huq Milon, Mashiur Rahman, Abdus Salam, Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Abul Khaier MP, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and Noor-e-Ara Safa.
The rally was organized to protest the cancellation of Koko’s parole and 'fabricated and false' propaganda against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman. Unlike in the past, leaders and workers of BNP and its front and associate organizations thronged the rally venue in small groups, not in slogan-raising procession, to avoid police action. Some groups of activists were seen entered the Muktangon in procession made up just near the venue. DMP has restricted processions and rallies on the streets to avoid traffic jam in the capital.
Addressing the rally Khandaker Mosharraf said Awami League has proved itself fascist and undemocratic by imposing restriction on street procession and rallies. Now it has been proved that the government is running the country in autocratic way in guise of democracy, he said.
He said borders are now unprotected, the country’s independence and sovereignty are at risk, the government is involved in activities against the national interest, it failed to oppose the Indian move to construct Tipaimuk Dam over the Borak river across Sylhet.
Mosharraf said restriction on street rallies and procession was imposed to stifle the people’s voice against providing transit and corridor facility to India.
He protested the evil propaganda against Tarique Rahman and asked the government to refrain from politics of vendetta as it can’t bring peace and political stability in the country. The BNP leader said people took to the street against the government misdeeds and its conspiracy against the Zia family, nationalist and patriotic democratic forces so that people cannot be united. Mosharraf called upon the party leaders and workers to prepare for launching a vigorous movement under the leadership of Khaleda Zia to save the country and its people.
BNP senior joint secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called for unity of all nationalist and patriotic democratic forces to resist the 'fascist activities as well as design to establish one-party BKSAL rule'. He said the Awami League government after assuming in power has given top priority in eliminating the opposition.
JCD president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku said they will forego celebration of Eid and take to the street if the demand of restoration of parole to Koko is not accepted. Presided over by BNP vice-chairman Air-vice Marshal (Retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, the rally was addressed, among others, by Fazlul Huq Milon, Mashiur Rahman, Abdus Salam, Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Abul Khaier MP, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel and Noor-e-Ara Safa.