BNP says, menacing force within the government is behind the crackdown on dissent

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DHAKA, 6 March, 2021 (TON): A menacing force within the government is responsible for the persecution of any dissenting voices, says Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

In the wake of leftist student organizations call for the repeal of the Digital Security Act, Alamgir made the remarks.

The meeting was organized at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium by Bangladesh Chhatra Forum and Uttar Chhatra Forum to mark the 14 anniversary of the jailing of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman.

The senior BNP leader said Mushtaq was imprisoned ‘simply because of writing something’ while cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was in jail ‘just because of drawing cartoons.’

While referring to the Awami League’s governance, he stressed that such tyrants have come in power repeatedly in this country. Whenever bandits, burglars, the British from the West arrived to take over, the young people of the country took a stand against them and took up arms to remove them if necessary.

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