The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party will go on demonstrations in Dhaka on Wednesday and across the country on Thursday to protest against the filing of a fresh case against the party's chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The BNP will hold a rally in front of the party's central office at Naya Paltanin Dhaka on Wednesday noon and the local units will hold rallies across the country on Thursday.
The party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes on Tuesday after a joint meeting of the BNP and its front organiations at in the party office.
Fakhrul said that the fresh case filed against Khaleda Zia had closed the door to negotiation. 'The government is pushing the country towards a great danger. It is leaving no way for understanding and pushing the nation towards a dark tunnel,' he said.
He branded the case filed against Khaleda as totally baseless and claimed the Anti-Corruption Commi- ssion had no authority to file the case. 'As the private organisation runs under the trust act, the deputy commissioner has to file any case against it in keeping with the law,' he said.
'The commission is politically influenced. It has filed the case against the opposition chief at the prime minister's order,' he said.
'There is not accusation of embezzlement and there is no witness. The Zia Charitable Trust is a public welfare organisation. It has no involvement with the government,' he said.
He called on the supporters to take to the streets against the government move.
The BNP's programmes will also protest against the warrant for arrest of the party's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman who was indicted on Monday for smuggling money taken in bribe out to Singapore.
Fakhrul said that the government was going by a dual policy. 'The government has withdrawn 7,600 cases filed against leaders and activists of the Awami League but no cases filed against BNP activists had been withdrawn.
'Even the prime minister herself withdrew 15 cases filed against her. In one of the cases, there was evidence of receiving money for the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust by cheques,' he said.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday sued Khaleda on charge of using undisclosed money to buy land for a charity named after her late husband Ziaur Rahman.
Source : New Age
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