AL trying to demean Zia, alleges BNP
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged that the ruling party is trying to belittle their party founder Ziaur Rahman by resorting to a ‘false’ campaign against him.
“Efforts are to belittle the person (Zia) who declared the country’s independence, fought for the united states and awakened the country after assuming state power by spreading false information,” he told a virtual discussion.
The BNP leader said Awami League politicised the country’s institutions since it never evaluates impartial and qualified people owned by other parties.
“They’ve now politicised the whole state machinery as per their ideology and principle. Because, in 1975, they established a one-party Baksal rule. We’ve not forgotten it…it’s not easy to cover up the truth.”
Bangladesh Krira Unnayan Parishad, a-pro-BNP platform, organised the programme, marking BNP founder Ziaur Rahman's late younger son Arafat Rahman Koko's 51st birth anniversary.
Fakhrul said the nation is going through an extremely bad time as the government has destroyed democracy, the primary spirit of the Liberation War. “Nothing, like the sports, music and politics, has gone out of politicisation as we lost the spirit of building a democratic state and a democratic society.”
Mentioning that he met renowned Lalon singer Farida Parveen and her flutist husband at an event at the American Embassy, he said, “They explained with a regret that they no more now invited to any government programmes or the government-sponsored tv set channels. Think just what a painful situation that greatest artist like Farida Parveen won many international awards and her prominent flutist husband are now ignored.”
The same manner, the BNP leader bemoaned that the forums of several persons who had fought the Liberation War but belonged to other parties weren't allowed to be studied to Shaheed Minar after their deaths.
To get rid of the problem, he said, there is absolutely no option to strengthening the movement for the ‘restoration’ of democracy in the united states.
Fakhrul said their party really wants to build the country and set up a democratic society as well as all putting aside political division. “We shouldn’t evaluate anyone predicated on his/her political affiliation. The main thing is that the united states belongs to all.”
