PM gave ominous sign: BNP

The BNP says it sees ‘an ominous sign’ in the prime minister’s remark, challenging to face it on the streets after the Eid-ul-Fitr. Party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the government’s efforts to thwart the 20-Party Alliance’s agitations would not be successful. The BNP and its allies, who boycotted the Jan 5 polls, have announced to hit the streets after the Eid to press for an early election supervised by a neutral caretaker government. However, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her Awami League was ready to face the BNP. On Monday’s press briefing, Rizvi claimed Hasina made such a comment as she ‘does not have to answer to the people’ and that her statement ‘ominously hinted at a possible bloody confrontation’, according to bdnews24.com.