The Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Friday that India was trying to destabilise the interim government of Bangladesh by creating chaos in the country.
India is trying to destabilise the interim government, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said, adding that no country would succeed in hatching a conspiracy against 18 crore united people of Bangladesh.
He came up with the remarks while addressing a discussion organised by pro-BNP student leaders of Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union and All Party Students Unity of the 90s at the National Press Club聽 marking Fall of Autocracy Day.
He said that India and some Hindu community members here were now creating problems to defame the people of the country and tarnish its image.
鈥楾heir only goal is to create chaos and try to make the interim government fail,鈥� said Mosharraf.
On December 6, 1990, military dictator Hussain Mohammad Ershad was forced to resign in the face of a mass upsurge and handed power over to a caretaker government, ending his nine years of autocratic rule which began with a coup on March 24, 1982.
The BNP leader said that various conspiracies were being hatched over religious minority issues in the country.
鈥楾he people of the Hindu community have not been living in the country for only three months, but they have been living here since independence in great harmony,鈥� he added.
Mosharraf also urged all country people, regardless of religion or caste, to confront all conspiracies.
He further said that the people of Bangladesh had repeatedly changed the government through mass uprisings.
鈥楽o there is no scope to undermine the people of this country. The people will decide what their government will be and how they will run the country,鈥� he said.
He said that the country鈥檚 people, regardless of all religions, must unite in maintaining peace and move towards the development of the country.
Mosharraf urged the government to give priority to a prompt reform of the election system and come up with an election roadmap.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, meanwhile, accused India of using communalism as a pretext for establishing dominance in the subcontinent by provoking hardline Hindus.
He came up with the remarks while addressing an event in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan, which called for a boycott of Indian products.
Rizvi said, 鈥楤y using communalism as a pretext, you are trying to establish dominance in the subcontinent inciting radical Hindus.鈥�
The BNP leader said that Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan were no longer aligned with India due to its hateful and malicious approach.
鈥楤angladesh is also not with you. This is solely because of your arrogance and the exploitative attitude you continue to demonstrate,鈥� he added.
Rizvi also said that Bangladesh was a self-sufficient nation, which achieved its independence through the sacrifice of three million lives and the loss of dignity of 2,00,000 women.
Criticising India for stopping issuing visas for Bangladeshis, he said, 鈥業f necessary, people of Bangladesh will go to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, or any other country. People do not want to go to a country like India, which harbours hatred towards us.鈥�
Rizvi also criticised Indian Republic Bangla TV for claiming that Chittagong was part of India, warning that Bangladesh would also claim ownership of areas such as Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha, once ruled by Muslim nawabs.