Staff Reporter:
BNP has termed the violent incidents including attacks on newspaper offices and different other establishments as a conspiracy to foil the next parliamentary election.
“We believe that such heinous attacks are a conspiracy to destabilise the upcoming national election and the democratic transition process,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
The BNP leader came up with the statement while speaking at a press briefing at the party chairperson’s office in Dhaka’s Gulshan on Friday night after a meeting of the party standing committee.
“On behalf of the peace-loving countrymen, we want to warn these despicable conspirators. We will not let our country, which was achieved at the cost of so much blood, be destroyed. We must stop this evil force in a united manner,” he said.
Mirza Fakhrul said there is no alternative to all the political and social forces opposing anarchy uniting now to resist this conspiracy.
“In the continuation of the unity through which we brought to ensure the fall of fascism and achieved an interim government and national election, we are calling on all patriotic forces to unite again today,” he added.
The BNP secretary general protested and condemned the attacks on Prothom Alo, the Daily Star offices, Udichi office, on Chhayanaut building, New Age editor Nurul Kabir, Indian High Commission office in Chattogram, and burning body of a youth after beating to death in allegation of blasphemy in Mymensingh.
He strongly condemned the cowardly murder of Sharif Osman Hadi and reiterated their demand of the immediate arrest and prosecution of the murderers.
