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PM inciting terrorism

Alleges Fakhrul

Staff Correspondent
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina provoked "state terrorism” by saying that her party's people have "the right to self-defence."
At a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club, the BNP spokesperson alleged that the state-sponsored terrorism has spread across the country as the PM defended “terrorist acts of her party men" by making such comments.
Jatiya Gonotantrik Party, a component of the BNP-led 19-party alliance, organised the discussion “in memory of Jubo lagpa leader Masud Rayhan and all other martyrs for saving independence and democracy.”
Pointing to Hasina's recent comments in parliament that Chhatra League men have also the right to self-defence, Fakhrul said the ruling party men were inspired by Hasina's such speech to attack the opposition leaders.
He said the premier has to be accountable for such remarks someday.
In the face of the ruling alliance's
repeated allegation that the opposition combine is involved in terrorism, Fakhrul said BNP does not believe in terrorism and his party is not involved in any terrorist activities either. "People know who are involved in terrorism," he further said.
The BNP leader said the BNP's decision of boycotting the January 5 polls was right as it has been proved that no fair election is possible under the Awami League government.
He said the AL leaders and activists call Hasina the daughter of democracy. "But through the holding of the January 5 election, she (Hasina] has destroyed democracy."
The BNP leader said the economic structure in the rural areas has collapsed as the government is creating obstacles to Grameen Bank activi-
ties.
Echoing Khaleda Zia's Tuesday's claim, Fakhrul said around 300 opposition men died at the hands of law enforcers and the ruling party's armed cadres.
He said there was still the time to stop repression and killing of the opposition men. "Otherwise country's democracy will be in danger.”
Meanwhile, the BNP chairperson's adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain yesterday alleged that by holding the "January 5 farcical polls" in the country, the government has ruined democracy.
The government is trying to hold on to power by using the law enforcers, but it is not possible, said Mahbub while addressing a discussion of Sommilito Peshajibi Parishad, a pro-BNP platform, at the latiya Press Club.