The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the ‘ghosts’ of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina were conspiring in different parts of the country and the biggest conspiracy was being held in the country’s industrial sectors.
The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the comments while addressing at a labour rally organised by the Gazipur district and metropolitan units of the Jatiyabadi Sramik Dal at the playground of Konabari Degree College.
‘We got rid of fascist Hasina after 14 or 15 years of struggle. For this long period of 14 or 15 years, many of our people were killed and tortured in Bangladesh. They killed workers, students, women,’ Fakhrul said.
He alleged that Sheikh Hasina, in order to stay in power and hold the post of prime minister, destroyed the whole state system.
He alleged that the fallen regime used the state institutions, especially the police force, to shoot people dead, arrest them in false cases and torture them.
He said that the people of the country had to endure ‘unspeakable atrocities’ during the Sheikh Hasina regime.
‘So, she [Hasina] fled amid the student-labour-mass movement,’ Fakhrul added.
‘We have told India not to give space for the person who committed genocide. They haven’t heard yet. So, I am asking the interim government to write to India to send Sheikh Hasina back,’ the BNP leader said.
‘Sheikh Hasina has escaped. But his ghosts are active in this country. They cannot forget that they had built empires in the country through theft, corruption and looting,’ he said.
He alleged that the men of Sheikh Hasina made huge properties in foreign countries by smuggling out money from Bangladesh.
He alleged that the followers of the fallen regime looted people’s money and built huge houses, farms, and businesses in the country.
‘They cannot forget what they did at that time,’ he said.
‘They are plotting in different parts of the country. They are doing the biggest conspiracy in the industrial areas,’ he said.
He alleged that the conspirators now wanted to destroy the garment sector, one of the most important sectors in the economy of Bangladesh.
‘Besides, a foreign power wants to destroy the garment sector in Bangladesh,’ he said.
Without naming the ‘foreign power’, he alleged that the foreign power thought that the demand for garment products from their country would increase in the international market in case of the destruction of Bangladesh’s garment sector.