Dhaka, Mar 07: Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday alleged that the Awami League government had ‘looted’ the electoral system of the country.
‘We have got the right to elect our government through the great Liberation War. May Allah give us back that right and achievement as those have been looted by the current government,’ he said.
Nazrul made the remarks while speaking at a prayer session arranged by BNP at its Naya Paltan central office in Dhaka on the occasion of the Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune that is being observed on Tuesday night across the country.
He bemoaned that the country’s resources were being looted almost openly and a huge amount of money is being siphoned off abroad from Bangladesh.
‘We’ll pray tonight to Allah to free us from misrule, bad governance, repressions, and suppressions,’ he said.
Nazrul urged the country’s people to pray for their party’s leaders and activists who had been subjected to enforced disappearance, killing, and repressive acts.
He said that the country’s people were going through serious ordeals due to misrule, corruption, and repression of the government.
The BNP leader expressed hope that the country’s people would get rid of the shackles of current despotic rule under the leadership of their party.
Nazrul claimed that the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia had been ‘unjustly imprisoned’ by the government and prayed to Allah for her unconditional release so that she can again serve the country and its people.
BNP vice chairman AZM Zahid Hossain, chairperson’s adviser Amanullah Aman, joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokon, and assistant office secretaries Taiful Islam Tipu and Abdussattar Patwari, among others, joined the prayer session.
