Govt trying to divide the nation: BNP

Accusing the ruling Awami League of trying to divide the nation, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged Saturday the country’s people to put up a strong resistance against a deep-rooted conspiracy against the country, according to a news agency.
“A deep-rooted plot is on to snatch people’s all rights by distorting the country’s history, destroying its culture and dividing the nation. All must be vocal and put up a strong resistance against it,” he said.
Fakhrul was addressing a meeting organised by Bangladesh Sammilita Peshajibi Parishad at the Jatiya Press Club in memory of Brac University professor Piash Karim who died  Monday.
Referring to the student and cultural organisations that prevented Piash Karim’s family from taking his body to the Central Shaheed Minar, he alleged that the Shaheed Minar is being politicised at the instigation of the government.
“Awami League is doing a politics of division. They’re doing politics and dividing the nation over those persons who are respected by the country’s 160 million people,” he added.