Govt up to old tricks in arresting BNP men: Khandaker Mosharraf

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday alleged that the government has started playing the 'old game' of arresting BNP leaders and activists in 'fabricated' cases.

“The government has started playing that old game again and hatching that old conspiracy. They’re now filing fresh fabricated cases,” he told a discussion.

As part of that game, the BNP leader said, the government arrested 54 leaders and activists of their party’s Sirajdikhan and Sreepur units under Munshiganj district from a social event at Banani Club on Sunday night.

"It has manifested how authoritarian this regime is. But there will be no benefit by filing these fake cases and hatching such conspiracies,” he observed.

Mosharraf, a BNP standing committee member, said the Awami League government must quit power as its plots have been exposed to the country’s people and the international community.

Khandaker Delwar Hossain Smriti Parishad arranged the programme, marking the 12th death anniversary of ex-BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain.

Delwar died of old-age complications at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on March 16, 2011.

Mosharraf said there is no peace in the minds of people due to the incidents of enforced disappearance, muurders, injustice, torture and extortion. “On the International Day of Happiness, World Happiness Report-2023 published where Bangladesh ranks 118th out of 137 countries.  This has demonstrated how much people are in trouble in the country.”

However, he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina used to say in her speeches that the country’s economy is good and the people of the country are happy.

The BNP leader also alleged that the government ministers are deceiving the people by lying about the country’s real situation, reports UNB.