The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday demanded action against people involved in irregularities in the recruitment of 803 sub-inspectors and 61 assistant superintendents of police during the fallen Awami League regime.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, addressing a programme on dengue prevention organised by the party in the city鈥檚 Uttara area, urged the interim government to take immediate action in this regard.
He said that, of the 803 SIs, 200 were from Gopalganj, the home district of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina who resigned as prime minister and fled to India amid a student-mass uprising on August 5.
He alleged that many administrative and police officials, who were associates of Awami League鈥檚 authoritarianism and fascism, were still working during the current neutral government.
He claimed that these SIs and ASPs were not appointed fairly.
鈥楬ow could 200 people from just one district, Gopalganj, become sub-inspectors? Who are the others? They are all from the Chhatra League and the Juba League,鈥� he said.
He urged the home affairs adviser to the interim government to look into the matter and reassess the appointments of the police officers.
鈥楾hese sub-inspectors and ASPs will spread the toxic venom of fascism throughout Bangladesh,鈥� he said.
He said that the students who protested during the government job quota movement sacrificed their lives standing in front of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 Rapid Action Battalion and inviting bullets.
Highlighting the need to arrest those involved in market syndicates, Rizvi wanted to know why the interim government was yet to arrest the people involved in market syndicates.
