Fallen dictator's allies conspiring to put govt into trouble: Rizvi

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today (30 March) expressed his grave concern, saying that the allies of the ousted dictator are trying to put the interim government into trouble.

"The fallen dictator's allies are conspiring to put the government into trouble . . . But this situation cannot be allowed to continue," Rizvi told a gathering.

He was distributing Eid gifts on behalf of the party's acting chairperson Tarique Rahman among the family members of the victims of enforced disappearances and murders organised by the Dhaka South City Unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).

He said the allies of the dictator Sheikh Hasina are still present in every nook and cranny of the existing administration and they are hatching conspiracies in many ways to destabilize the country.

Rizvi was very critical about the interim government and said many leaders and workers of BNP and its affiliated organizations became the victims of enforced disappearances, murders and assassinations during the anti-fascist Hasina movement in the last 16 years, but the incumbent government is careless about this.

"We cannot see the grief and condolences of these families . . .  Only their families can understand their pain," the BNP leader observed.

Noting that 17/18 rickshaw pullers had to embrace martyrdom in the July movement, he said their families are living in great hardship and their school and college-going children are not able to pay their tuition fees, it is the responsibility of this government to rehabilitate these families.

The BNP spokesperson also alleged that the interim government is making delay to arrange the national polls as well as do the necessary reforms.

Dhaka Metropolitan South Chhatra Dal convener Shamim Mahmud presided over the programme.

Among others, member secretary Abdur Rahim, JCD Central President Rakibul Islam Rakib and Vice President Dr Abdul Awal, among others also spoke.