BNP blasts ruling party for flaying its leaders
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Opposition BNP has blasted the ruling party and the Prime Minister for flaying its leaders during general discussion on a contempt motion in parliament Monday against the bomb attack on Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh MP.
Giving reaction to reporters at the BNP Central Office Tuesday afternoon over the parliament's adoption of the reproach resolution, BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain questioned if the party in power has harboured hatred against BNP, why they are calling it to join parliament, reports UNB.
"It is nothing but public eyewash. Actually they don't want the opposition to return to parliament," he told the reporters, apparently hardening their stance over their prolonged boycott of the parliament sessions.
Mr Delwar alleged that the treasury-bench lawmakers, including the Leader of the House, during the parliament discussion blamed BNP in connection with the attack on Mr Taposh as well as other previous incidents like August 15, 1975 and August 21, 2004.
He said if the head of government in association with other leaders of the ruling party points finger at a certain party, implicating it in an incident when investigation is underway, what would be the fate of the investigation as the agencies involved in the probe process belong to the government.
The BNP secretary-general denounced "such posture of the Prime Minister".
He said BNP did give its statements against the attack on Mr Taposh, "but, possibly, the ruling party either did not read it or see it, or ignored it".
However, Mr Delwar said they are again condemning the bomb attack on the ruling-party lawmaker.
Replying to a question over the passage of the Representation of People Order (Second Amendment) Act 2009 by parliament Monday, he said the RPO Act was passed hurriedly with a provision for cancelling political party registration "just to destroy BNP as well as to split the party into fragments".
Giving reaction to reporters at the BNP Central Office Tuesday afternoon over the parliament's adoption of the reproach resolution, BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain questioned if the party in power has harboured hatred against BNP, why they are calling it to join parliament, reports UNB.
"It is nothing but public eyewash. Actually they don't want the opposition to return to parliament," he told the reporters, apparently hardening their stance over their prolonged boycott of the parliament sessions.
Mr Delwar alleged that the treasury-bench lawmakers, including the Leader of the House, during the parliament discussion blamed BNP in connection with the attack on Mr Taposh as well as other previous incidents like August 15, 1975 and August 21, 2004.
He said if the head of government in association with other leaders of the ruling party points finger at a certain party, implicating it in an incident when investigation is underway, what would be the fate of the investigation as the agencies involved in the probe process belong to the government.
The BNP secretary-general denounced "such posture of the Prime Minister".
He said BNP did give its statements against the attack on Mr Taposh, "but, possibly, the ruling party either did not read it or see it, or ignored it".
However, Mr Delwar said they are again condemning the bomb attack on the ruling-party lawmaker.
Replying to a question over the passage of the Representation of People Order (Second Amendment) Act 2009 by parliament Monday, he said the RPO Act was passed hurriedly with a provision for cancelling political party registration "just to destroy BNP as well as to split the party into fragments".