(Top left) President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stand in solemn silence, (Top right) leaders of Awami League, (Bottom left) BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and (Bottom right) Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad placing wreaths at the BNP alleged Sunday that the current Awami League (AL) government has shattered the dream of the martyred intellectuals by annihilating democracy, report agencies.
"The martyred intellectuals who had sacrificed their lives for the country had a dream of building a prosperous and democratic Bangladesh, but the AL has spoilt their dream by annihilating democracy," said BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
He came up with the remarks while talking to reporters at the Martyred Intellectuals' Mausoleum at city's Mirpur.
Mirza Fakhrul, also the acting secretary general of BNP, said they are working hard together with people for restoring democracy.
He said they are on a democratic movement to realise people's demand for restoring democracy and establish their rights. "Our movement will surely be successful as no democratic movement in the world turned futile."
The BNP leader alleged that the government has failed to contain extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and state-sponsored terrorism.
"There has been extra-judicial killing and forced disappearance spree like that of 1971. As the current government is an unelected and illegal one, it has failed to stop these," he further alleged.
Mirza Fakhrul said the country is seeing murder and abductions like in 1971, and he held the present AL-led government responsible for it.
The party, led by its chairperson Khaleda Zia, paid homage to the intellectuals murdered during the Liberation War Sunday at the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial.
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