BNP assails govt as its leaders sent to jail

Deploring the sending of its three senior leaders to jail by a court, BNP Sunday claimed the move has exposed the government’s utter vindictive attitude and heinous repressive policy.
“We think our senior leaders, including the acting secretary general, has been sent to jail only for raising their voice in favour of the party, democracy, the country and its independence. We condemn the way their bails were cancelled,” BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told a press briefing.
The briefing was arranged at the party’s Nayapaltan central office to ventilate the party’s anger against the court order.
Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court sent BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas and its Dhaka City member secretary Abdus Salam to jail rejecting their bail petitions in three cases, including that of a murder, in connection with an arson attack on a bus.
Rizvi demanded the immediate release of the three BNP leaders and withdrawal of the ‘false’ cases filed against them, according to a news agency.