Dhaka, April 16 – The BNP on Tuesday brushed aside the news report that party’s ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia is getting the release on parole for treatment abroad.
“Our deshnetri (country leader) has not given any decision over seeking parole (for treatment). Most of the news report on the matter is baseless,” said party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir while speaking as the chief guest at the extended meeting of a portion of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) at Jatiya Press Club.
His comments came following an English language daily carried out a report claiming that the government and the BNP reportedly reached an understanding over the release of the former premier on parole to take
treatment in the UK.
Mirza Alamgir mentioned that the BNP leaders meet the party’s jailed chairperson on the occasion of special days like the first day of Boishakh and December 16.
“There is nothing new to discover here…The matter of seeking parole by our leader is being discussed for the last few days. On Tuesday the English language daily carried out the report on the matter with datelines. When they contacted me I told them, this is baseless,’ he mentioned.
He said there is a section of journalists, who are well as because they speak in favour of a special quarter.
Besides, most of the journalists are unemployed as they speak against the colonialism and expansionism. Resulting in, newspapers one after another are being closed and some of them have become the victim of
enforced disappearance and arrest, he said.
He said the people have no right and they are deprived of justice while law enforcers are misbehaving with them.
The BNP leader put emphasis on the need to get united saying that there is no alternative of the people and they have to go forward with courage.
“We all had got united in 1971 for the independence, now all have to get united again to protect the independence of the country,” he added.
He called upon to refrain from practising yellow journalism saying that a section is trying to control the media and they are assisting the ruling quarter to build a “whimsical society.”
Mirza Alamgir claimed that the law and order have been deteriorated in the country and an anarchic situation is prevailing in the country and there is no accountability.
He said the incidents of rape Sonagazi and Subornachar happened on political grounds while the law enforcers have taken a stance against the people.
Presided over by Quader Ghani Chowdhury, president of the DUJ, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by the former president of Jatiya Press Club Shawkat Mahmud, former general secretary Syed Abdal Ahmed, president of a section of BFUJ Ruhul Amin Gazi, Abdus Shahid,
Abdul Hye Sikder and DUJ secretary Shahidul Islam. – Staff Reporter
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