Govt conspiring to keep BNP out of politics: Fakhrul

BNP on Saturday alleged that the government is conspiring to keep the party away from politics and election by implicating its top leaders in ‘false’ cases. “The government has filed false cases one after another against Khaleda Zia. Cases have also been filed against our senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman. Now they’ve also implicated him in the August 21 grenade attack case,” said BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Addressing a discussion, he further said, “The government is doing all these things with a motive to keep BNP out of politics so that it can’t take part in elections.” National daily the Amar Desh organised the programme marking the 500th day of its acting editor Mahmudur Rahman’s imprisonment, according to a news agency.