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Won't seek govt nod for future rally

Say BNP leaders

Staff Correspondent
The BNP will not seek permission for holding rallies as the government is "not elected by the people's vote", Mirza Fakhrul Islam, secretary general of the party.
"We will not seek permission in future. Whenever necessary, we will hold rallies and take to the streets as it is our constitutional rights," he said yesterday, addressing a rally in front of the BNP's Nayapaltan office.
The rally was organised to demand release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has been in jail for almost 20 months now on corruption charges.
BNP expected to hold the rally on Saturday but did not have permission. "We got permission for this rally at 10:00am today [yesterday]," he said.
Leaders and activists of the BNP thronged the venue with placards, festoons and banners that carried pictures of Khaleda and BNP acting charman Tarique Rahman.
Speakers at the rally said the government snatched people's right to expression and that was the reason why BNP was not allowed to hold programmes on many occasions.
About Khaleda's imprisonment, Fakhrul said the government's political vengeance "unfairly and illegally" kept Khaleda behind the bars.
He called upon the mass people and said everybody should be united regardless of their differences to free Khaleda and restore democracy through a mass movement.
He also criticised government institutions for failing to reduce crime across the country.
"They [the government] made Road Safety Act but hundreds of people are getting killed and injured on the roads. Businesses and trades have collapsed as the share markets and banks are plundered," he said.
Independence of judiciary was curbed and press freedom was snatched, he added.
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, standing committee member of BNP, said thousands of BNP leaders and activists, along with Khaleda, were imprisoned in false cases.
Prices of all essentials also shot up as a quarter is making quick buck inflicting sufferings of people, he said.
"The fascist and unelected prime minister rang bell in Kolkata for inaugurating a game but the bell of her fall in Bangladesh has already rung through overheated market," he said.
Moudud Ahmed, another standing committee member of the party, said an anarchic situation had been created in the country as the incumbent government had no accountability to people.
"We are facing social, political and economic degradation due to lack of values as the government doesn't value public opinion and stay busy in securing their own interests."
The former law minister also said it was regrettable that the judges in present could not work independently due to political influence from the government.
"That is why our chairperson Khaleda Zia has been staying in jail for such a long time," he added.
BNP standing committee members Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, among others, addressed the rally with Dhaka South city unit general secretary Kazi Abul Bashar in the chair.