BNP leaders were sent to jail just for Jan 7 dummy election: Rizvi
FE REPORT | Thursday, 29 February 2024
Comparing jail with 'poisonous gas', Senior Joint Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Wednesday that the government had sent his party's influential leaders and activists to jail just for the 'dummy election' held on January 7, 2024.
"Heavyweight influential leaders and activists of BNP and its associates bodies were sent to jail by the government just to hold a dummy election (on January 7, 2024) and out of fear for the opposition's anti-government movement," Rizvi told the media after Joint General Secretary of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal Mehedi Hasan Palash and other party leaders who were recently released from jail on bail met with him at the party's Nayapaltan central office in the capital.
"Prison is like poisonous gas chamber where basic facilities for a person's (prisoner) survival are absent," he said.
He alleged that imprisoned BNP leaders and activists were not given blanket even amid chilling cold and were given sand- mixed rice while they were in jail.
"Krishak Dal leader Palash faced torture while he was in prison. Police arrested President of Muktijoddha Dal Aziz without reason just out of fear for the anti-government movement," he continued.
Assistant Office Secretary of BNP Mohammad Munir Hossain, Member Secretary of Jatiyatabadi Matsyajibi Dal Abdur Rahim and Organising Secretary of the Paltan unit of the party Firoz Alam Patwary were present, among others.