Country now under barbaric rule, alleges Mirza Fakhrul

FE Team | Published: August 08, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

BNP termed Thursday 'heinous and inhuman' the police attacks on the workers of Tuba Group who were on a movement demanding their dues and festival bonus, reports UNB.
In a statement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also compared the police attack on the hapless RMG workers with medieval age darkness and barbarism.
"The country is now under a barbaric rule… the police attacks on the workers have proved that the country is run by the offenders not by the law," he said.
He strongly condemned and protested the attacks on the agitating workers with their justified demands.
Mr Fakhrul alleged that the current regime that talks about the spirit of War of Liberation had established autocracy after grabbing power through a farcical election on January 5. "The country is now run by one person's whim."
He said the country's people strongly believe that the problem relating to the Tuba Group workers' dues and bonus could be solved soon if the BGMEA takes proper steps.
The BNP spokesman demanded the government and other authorities concerned take necessary measures so that the demonstrating Tuba Group workers get their dues and bonus properly.
Meanwhile, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB) condemned Thursday the 'barbaric' police attacks on RMG workers and demanded immediate release of the arrested union leaders.
The two parties held a rally in front of the National Press Club immediately after the arrest of labour leaders, including Moshrefa Mishu, Jolly Talukder and Monjur Moin, during and after the police attacks on the Tuba Group workers, who had been observing a hunger strike demanding their dues.
Addressing the rally, SPB general secretary Khalequzzaman alleged that goons backed by the ruling party were also involved in today's attacks on the workers and their leaders.
He said the attacks show that the government has turned anti-working class one. "The government has now taken a naked stance against the workers, and behaved barbarously towards them, that even for an owner who is responsible for the death of more than one hundred workers," he said.