BNP turns into underground, terrorist party: Nasim

Awami League presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Wednesday a big political party like BNP has turned out to be an underground organisation unleashing terrorism and subversive acts in the name of siege and hartal programmes, reports BSS.

"BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to embrace the similar fate to that of the leader of an underground party usually embraces," he said.

Mohammad Nasim disclosed this while talking to reporters emerging from a joint meeting between the central leaders of Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies at the political office of party president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in the city.

The meeting was convened to make a success the ruling party's public rally to be organised at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the city to mark the historic March 7.

AL joint general secretaries Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni and Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, labour affairs secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj, information and research affairs secretary Advocate Afzal Hossain, deputy office secretary Advocate Mrinal Kanti Das and central working committee member Sujit Roy Nandi were present, among others.  Besides, presidents and general secretaries of Dhaka City AL, Dhaka District AL and party's associate bodies also attended the meeting.

Mohammad Nasim said, "Showing a thumb to the court and the laws of the land, BNP chairperson (Khaleda Zia) has delightfully been killing people to save the war criminals and the killers of Bangabandhu."