Govt trying to foil movement for CG
Says BNP leader Moudud
The government has created "a debate and a smokescreen" centring the verdict against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to "stop" the opposition's ongoing movement demanding restoration of the caretaker government (CG) system, said BNP leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday.
"The movement will go on no matter what they [government] do to stop it," Moudud, the party's standing committee member, said at a rally in the capital.
Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, staged the rally protesting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's speech in parliament on Thursday, lambasting Khaleda Zia for publishing an article in Washington Times on January 30.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday sentenced Mollah to life term imprisonment for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
In the rally, Moudud said the BNP wants punishment for war criminals of 1971, but the trial must be transparent, clear and of international standard.
He said the Election Commission and Anti-Corruption Commission do not work properly. They became agents of the government, he said.
Meanwhile, BNP-led 18-party alliance will hold another rally tomorrow in front of the party's Nayapaltan central office in the capital demanding restoration of the caretaker government system and withdrawal of all the "false cases" against their activists.
The decision came from a meeting of the secretary generals of the alliance.
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