BNP gets desperate to capture power through terrorist acts: Quader, Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the Awami League, claimed today that the BNP has turned to terrorism once more in its desperation to seize state power, capitalizing on the ongoing global economic crisis brought on by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
BNP gets desperate to capture power through terrorist acts: Quader
“Leaders of BNP are brazenly performing foolish efforts to refuse their previous transgressions,” he said in a statement. “Conscious people of the country have been demanding the punishment for barbaric acts of arson terrorism carried out by BNP-Jamaat.” According to Quader, who is also the minister for roads, bridges, and traffic, the BNP-Jamaat is a recognized terrorist organization on a global scale.
Due to the arson terrorism of BNP-Jamaat, he said, a Canadian Federal Court declared the BNP as a terrorist organization. The AL general secretary said the BNP leaders have forgotten their past misdeeds but the people of Bangladesh are yet to forget those. Issuing a fresh warning that there is no chance of seizing the state power, without joining elections, through terrorism, anarchy, and plots, he said, adding that as per the country’s Constitution, any political party must assume power with people’s mandate. Quader said the country’s people did not forget the arson terrorism carried out under the directives of the BNP’s top leaders.
He claimed that in 2013, Jamaat-BNP armed terrorists carried out a horrific death spree across Bangladesh using petrol bombs and arson while they continued the trial of senior war offenders. He claimed that such actions were carried out in the name of the so-called blockade scheme, which BNP chairman Begum Khaleda Zia had proclaimed in 2015, in order to disrupt the 2014 national elections.
No one was exempt from the threat of this terrorism, according to the AL general secretary, including school-age children, transportation employees, small-time business owners, and law enforcement officers. At the time, he claimed, men from the BNP Jamaat carried out terrorist acts around the nation that resulted in the deaths of over 150 people.
Quader said the news of the BNP-Jamaat terrorist acts were published in local and international media. Top BNP leaders, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia, were giving instructions over the phone to their leaders and activists to kill people indiscriminately, he said. “Such a telephone conversation was also aired in media,” he added.