The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday said that more than one lakh of its leaders and activists had been accused in 1,124 cases filed by the police over political programmes called by the party in the past five months.
‘Since July 28, police have filed a total of 1,124 cases against 1,00,689 BNP leaders and activists,’ the party’s senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, said at a virtual press conference.
Rizvi added that 24,541 leaders and activists of the BNP had been arrested and 27 people, including one journalist, had been killed during the period.
He alleged that the jail authorities cancelled BNP joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal’s division facilities inside the prison. Besides, while distributing leaflets in the Gulshan-2 area,
Rizvi once again urged people to boycott the upcoming elections, terming the polls a farce.
He said that the nation was being cheated through an illegal, dummy election.
It is a fraud against the entire nation, he said, adding that people must stand against this illegal election and boycott it.
Urging voters to prevent the election, he said that the ‘fascist Awami League government’ had snatched the people’s right to vote and taken away freedom of speech.
The party leaders and activists across the country distributed leaflets among people to drum up support for boycotting polls and in favour of its non-cooperation movement.
BNP and some other major opposition parties boycotted the January 7 general election, demanding the polls under a non-party election-time administration.
