Stay alert against plot for violence to shift blame on to BNP: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday urged everyone to remain alert as the government is plotting to carry out violence and communal attacks to shift the blame onto opposition parties.

"They (govt) are conspiring. It won’t work, no matter how much plot they hatch,” he told a rally at Nayapaltan after the party’s two mass processions.

As part of that plot, the BNP leader said his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader talked about violence and communal attacks two days ago.

“By making such attacks by Awami League, they (government) will try to put the blame on the opposition parties. That's why everyone should stay alert,” he warned.

Fakhrul said the government has no strength to resist the people who took to the streets to ensure its fall.

“We must take to the streets with more courage to defeat this demonic government,” he told the opposition leaders and workers.

The BNP leader said people from all walks of life, including farmers, labourers and hardworking people, regardless of their party affiliation, have got united to unseat the Awami League government through a united movement.

“You’re going through suffering in the rain. You have to endure more pains and suffering in the days to come to establish a people's government through a credible election under a truly neutral non-partisan government by defeating the current regime,” he said pointing at the opposition followers.

Fakhrul once again called upon the government to quit and dissolve parliament by accepting the opposition’s one-point demand that includes holding the election under a polls-time government and releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia after withdrawing the cases against her.

Earlier BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units took out separately mass processions to press home their one-point demand.

The Dhaka south city unit of BNP brought out a procession from near Kamalapur Railway Station before it ended at Nayapaltan.

BNP's Dhaka north city unit took out a procession from Rampura towards Nayapaltan.

Fakhrul concluded the programme through a brief rally amid rain.

Apart from BNP, Ganotantra Mancha, 12-party alliance, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote, LDP, Gonoforum and People’s Party, Samamona Peshajibi Ganatantrik Jote, Gonotantrik Bam Oikya, Labour Party, Bangladesh Sadaran Chhatra Odhikar Sanrakshan Parishad and the two factions of Gono Odhikar Parishad also observed a similar programme separately in different areas of the capital

On July 12 this year, BNP and the like-minded parties announced their one-point movement to realise their demands.

Their demands include the resignation of the current “fascist, authoritarian, people's vote looter and illegal” Awami League government, dissolution of the existing parliament, formation of the polls-time impartial government and reconstitution of the Election Commission for arranging a free, fair and inclusive election, the release of all political prisoners, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, withdrawal of all falls and ghost cases, including those against Tarique Rahman, and annulment of all false convictions.