Govt trying to perpetuate power through media gagging: BNP

NARAYANGANJ: BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday alleged that government is trying to hang onto power by controlling the media.
“The government wants to cling to power by re-establishing one-party rule after snatching people’s basic rights through controlling the media,” he said, according to a news agency.
Fakhrul, also the BNP acting secretary general, was addressing a post-Eid reunion at Meghna Ghat Balurmat arranged by Sonargaon upazila unit of BNP.
Criticising the government for what he said formulating the National Broadcast Policy, 2014 with a motive to gag the media, the BNP leader said the current regime is making black laws one after another to hush up its misdeeds and corruption.
“Awami League had shut down all the newspapers except four papers after establishing one-party Baksal rule in 1975. This time they’re also going ahead with the same policy.”
Accusing the government of grabbing power through a farcical election on January-5, he urged the BNP leaders and activists to get ready for waging a strong movement to restore democracy and save the country from the hands of an ‘illegal’ regime.