Bangladesh News

Asking the party leaders and worker to be prepared for movement, BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday said they would bring about the downfall of the present government through movement.

“We have to oust the government through agitation,” he said and like party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, also termed the interim government a “parasite”.

Delwar was addressing a discussion meeting at Engineers Institution organised by BNP student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD to mark the death anniversary of president Ziaur Rahman, also the founder of the BNP.

Referring to the guidelines he received from detained chairperson during one-to-one parley on Sunday, Delwar said she stated in the dock that this government is “parasitic” and “illegal”.

Party source said the chairperson, during her closed-door meeting with Delwar, asked to remain united and prepare for movement to restore democracy in the country.

Criticising the government for launching the crackdown on the political activists, Delwar said the government is arresting the political leaders and workers in a bid to thwart the possible movement against it.

Political leaders have been arrested in the name of curbing terrorism but the real culprits are still in safe den, he said.

Presided over by JCD acting President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by party’s joint secretaries general Selima Rahman, Nazrul Islam Khan and Goyeswar Chandra Roy, acting Office Secretary Rizvi Ahmed and JCD General Secretary Sahfiul Bari Babu.