Deaths at Opposition's Processions
PM cannot avoid responsibilities
Says Mirza Fakhrul
Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir addresses a rally in front of the party's central office at Nayapaltan in the city yesterday to protest the death of five people, killed in police firing centring on the opposition's mass procession programme. Photo: STAR
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cannot avoid responsibilities for the death of five people, who were killed in police firing centring the opposition's mass procession programme, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of BNP, said yesterday. Fakhrul was addressing a protest rally at BNP's central office premises at Nayapaltan in the capital. Four persons were killed in police firing on BNP processions at Chandpur and Laxmipur on Sunday while a Jamaat man was killed on Monday as police opened fire on a procession of Jamaat-e-Islami at Rajshahi. Dhaka city unit BNP organised the rally as part of the party's countrywide demonstration protesting the killing of five opposition men. Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia had declared the programme from a mammoth rally on Monday before leading a mass procession in the capital. Fakhrul said the government has started to fire openly after being isolated from people due to its misdeeds. “The government showed absolute failure in each sector of the country. It destroyed the economy [of the country], and no electoral pledge was implemented.” Rejecting the allegation made by the prime minister after the disclosure of a failed army coup that Khaleda Zia gave an ultimatum to oust the government by December last, the BNP leader said the party chairperson never gave any timeline to oust the government. “Rather it was Awami League who always backed and supported army coups in the country and gave deadlines and ultimatum to oust democratically elected BNP government,” he added. Referring to the media news on Lt Col Ehsan, who was one of the schemers of the failed army coup, BNP city unit convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka said Ehsan was sent into retirement during last BNP regime, but he was reappointed and got promotion during the present government. “As a defence minister, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina can not avoid responsibility for what happens in the cantonment,” he said. BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Amanullah Aman, among others, spoke on the occasion.
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