Govt opens laboratory to promote misrule: BNP

Criticising the government for what the party said its growing repressive acts, BNP Tuesday alleged that the government has opened a 'laboratory' for promoting autocratic rule in a bid to perpetuate its illegal power, reports UNB.

"This traitor grand alliance regime has opened a laboratory in Bangladesh for promoting absolute fascism and limitless undemocratic one-party autocratic rule to endanger democratic practice through intensifying its hooliganism and terror attacks in a bid to prolong the power it has snatched from people," said joint BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

Rizvi brought the allegations at a press briefing at BNP's Nayapaltan central office.

Earlier on Monday, a Dhaka court summoned Tarique Rahman asking him to appear before it on December 10 in connection with a Tk 1.0 billion defamation case filed against him on charge of calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a 'Pakbandhu' (Friend of Pakistan).

Apparently dropping a broad hint that their party is going to wage a decisive movement early next year, BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said on Tuesday said the current Awami League-led government cannot last beyond March next.

"Awami League leaders assert that they'll be there in office until 2019, but this regime won't last beyond March next. People all over the country have already started discussing that this administration will no longer prevail after March," he said.

The BNP leader came up with the remarks while addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club arranged by Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Karmajibi Dal, marking the 50th birthday of BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman.