Staff Reporter:
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government has re-sorted to “falsehood and connivance” regarding the quota movement to hide the facts.
In a statement, he also said the government is out to suppress the opposition leaders and workers instead of tracking down the real offenders involved in violence during the student movement.
“The government and law enforcement agencies are jointly indulging in brazen lies about the quota movement of students. The latest evidence of this is the police claim that Abu Sayed in Rangpur died not from a bullet, but from a brick, despite the fact that people both in the country and abroad witnessed how he was gunned down,” Fakhrul said.
He said the government should take full responsibility for the violence during the student movement and resign, respecting the people’s demands.
He alleged that although many leaders and activists of the BNP and other opposition parties, as well as students involved in the quota movement, were taken away by plainclothes police, they have still not been returned to their families.
