Opposition Chief Whip Zainal Abdin Farroque yesterday blamed the government for trying to make a one-party parliament keeping the opposition out of the House.
Terming the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent speech regarding opposition ‘false and baseless’ he urged the government to stop making propaganda against the opposition.
Farroque also urged the government to refrain from any attempt to oust Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia from her cantonment house.
He severely criticised Sheikh Hasina for her comment on BNP in an AL meeting on June 24.
“Sheikh Hasina said BNP came to power in 2001 by giving an undertaking to India that it would sell gas to them. We are strongly objecting to her remark,” Farroque said at a press briefing at his Nam flat in the city.
He said the prime minister doesn’t want to see the opposition in the parliament. “We demand the government stops hatching conspiracy against us; we want a better environment so that we can join the parliament.”
In response to a query the opposition Chief Whip said, “Tipaimukh Dam is a national issue. There is no need to divide the nation on the issue.”
BNP will announce names of its representatives only if the neutral experts are included in the parliamentary delegation to visit the dam area, he said.
When asked about the PM’s proposal to the opposition to send BNP’s own delegation to Tipaimukh site he said posing a question, “Would the Indian government allow us (BNP) to visit the dam separately?”
Border forces have been ruined and the army suffered irreversible losses. Now the armed force is being weakened through dismissal of its officers, he blasted the government for recent dismissal of some army officers.
BNP lawmakers Abdul Momin Talukder, Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anni, Abul Khayer Bhuiyan, Rehana Akhter Ranu, among others, were present at the briefing.
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