BNP Standing Committee Member Selima Rahman said that Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other leaders and activists of Awami League are trying to create instability by creating chaos in Bangladesh by staying in India and other countries.
He said these things at the reception organized on the occasion of BNP Chairperson Mahidur Rahman's homecoming at National Press Club on Monday.
Selima Rahman said that BNP has been agitating for the return of people's rights for the past 17 years but it has not yet been fulfilled. The dictator who fled and took refuge in the neighboring country, from there he is making phone calls every day, as many Awami League leaders who have fled are creating chaos by misleading the people of the country so as to create instability in this country.
BNP does not fight for power, he said, 'BNP fights for the welfare of the people. Because you see how many autocratic governments have come one after the other from Shahid Zia to Begum Khaleda Zia who is plagued with false cases today. Then Tariq Rahman filed numerous false cases against him. How many leaders have been missing and murdered in 17 years. How much has passed us by. Even so, BNP is repeatedly standing by the people with these false cases.
He said, 'Students quota movement was main. Then it turned into a movement. Many mothers lost their children in that movement. Many boys have lost their fathers. Many people are injured today, I don't know their future yet. Efforts are being made to heal them and give them a future. The freedom we got after so much trouble, but we could not enjoy the full taste of that freedom. Because some plotters of autocratic government repeatedly destroy it.'
He said, 'Today we have to remember that reform means reform as the country has, the state has; Political parties also need to be reformed. A lot of people stand back and take pictures while speaking, I mean if we can't do something then this picture won't help. We have to remember that our national leader Khaleda Zia suffered a lot, yet she did not give up.'
This leader of BNP said, 'Neighboring countries are always trying to make Bangladesh a state and for that they want Awami League to be in power. But the students of Bangladesh have thwarted that plan.
BNP's volunteer affairs secretary Mir Sarafat Ali Sapu, central BNP member Farida Yasmin, joint secretary general Abdus Salam Azad and others were also present in the meeting.
