Khaleda blasts jailing of senior BNP leaders

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia voiced concern over jailing three senior leaders of her party alleging that the country is being run by a whimsical ruler.
Her concern came after a Dhaka court rejected bails to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Mirza Abbas and its Dhaka City member secretary Abdus Salam in criminal cases of murder and arson attacks, according to a news agency.
 The jailing of the three leaders has “exposed the government’s repressive and vindictive attitude,” she said in a statement Sunday.
 Khaleda demanded unconditional release of the three BNP leaders and withdrawal of the false cases filed against them.
 “We are as if living in bizarre Hirak Rajar Desh which was run by a whimsical ruler,” she said.
 “The central leaders have been sent to jail for speaking for people’s democratic and basic rights,” she said.
 Khaleda alleged that the government turned the country into a prison with the wholesale arrest of the political opponents.
 She said the imprisonment of the leaders is part of the government’s design to destroy BNP.
 She warned that the arrests of the leaders in false cases will not weaken the opposition’s movement. The people are rather getting ready to resist “the illegal regime all misdeeds.”