- Mirza Fakhrul, Amir Khasru, Anee get bail
- More than 162,000 leaders and activists are accused
- 28 thousand BNP leaders and activists sent to jail
- Strikes, blockades, non-cooperation movements are futile
- High command in hiding while Trinamool was in the field
- After the top leaders are free, it is now necessary to create a path for liberation: Dr ATM Nurul Amin, political analys
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Publicity Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee were released from detention on the same day.
This time, the 12th parliamentary election was held keeping 28,000 BNP leaders and activists in jail. About 1,200 cases have been filed. There were more than 162,000 defendants. During the election, more than one crore leaders and activists left their homes and hid in the forest in fear of the ruling party and administration.
It was also claimed that about 60 percent of the people in the jail were BNP activists. After dozens of top leaders were arrested at that time, all the top leaders of the party went into hiding. The field-level leaders could not harvest any crop of hopes by staging separate movements.
The party, which has been out of power for a long time, could not stop the Awami League (AL) despite continuous hartal, blockade, non-cooperation movement. Political analysts blame the weakness of leadership for successive failures. Experts concerned said that most of the people of the country did not go to the voting center this time. This has affected BNP not to participate in the election. Now BNP must do something to protect democracy and revive the leaders and activists so that the frustrated leaders and activists get back to life.
AL Presidium Member Dr Abdur Razzak said AL has made all efforts to bring BNP to the polls. Even in one night, all the leaders were offered to be released from jail, but BNP did not agree. BNP would have been exempt from the election. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, BNP leaders Mahmudur Rahman Manna and Saiful Haque Tara strongly protested the remarks. There was a lot of discussion and criticism in politics.
Political analyst and professor emeritus Dr ATM Nurul Amin told The Daily Post that the release of BNP's top leaders is definitely good news for politics. This will encourage their leaders. There may be some impact on politics. However, thousands of party leaders and activists are still in jail. The government should release them too. We all know that the 12th parliamentary election was not participatory. Most of the people of the country have boycotted this election. But not only this election, the past elections under a partisan government have not been transparent. The system of election through people's vote has gone far from our country. We all need to realize that there should not be a situation where there will be unrest among people. Many people have realized what India and Russia have done in this election. But we also need to know that the ancestors of those who are now in the head of the government have done politics following the Western ideals of England, America. Most of the big leaders of this country have been politicized by the West those who have given priority to people's voting rights and democracy. We need to get back to the politics of people's thoughts. The political analyst also said that after the release of those who were in jail for a long time in opposition politics ahead of the election, it is necessary to create a way for release so that the leaders and activists can express their views freely and realize their rights. It can come back as a beauty of politics.
After the release of the party's secretary general yesterday, it was known that about 23,000 leaders and activists were arrested from 4/5 days before the grand rally of BNP on October 28 to last week. There have been 80,000 defendants. According to the latest data, 28,000 leaders and activists have been arrested since July 28 and 29 last year. The number of cases is about 1200. The defendants are more than 162,000. The party also claimed that nine people were sentenced to death in 84 cases and 1,294 leaders and activists were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment. Thousands of activists are still imprisoned. Prosecutors are trying to free them.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury arrived at the main gate of Dhaka Central Jail around 3:45pm yesterday. The activists sprinkled flower petals with the leaders and chanted slogans.
Greeting the leaders and activists by raising their hands, the BNP secretary general said the people of Bangladesh have always struggled for democracy, for the right to vote, for the right to food. Inshallah, we will win this movement. The BNP secretary general also asserted that the ongoing movement to restore democracy will continue until victory.
Later, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said, "They grabbed power by capturing state power, the people of Bangladesh rejected them. They were morally defeated by the people in the elections. We want to say that the movement for democracy will remain intact. This struggle will continue until democracy is restored in the country and an elected government is not formed. ”
Central leaders Taiful Islam Tipu, Shamimur Rahman Shamim, Nipun Roy Chowdhury, Farhad Hossain Azad, former MP Ali Newaz Mahmud, Israfil Khasru Chowdhury, Shairul Kabir Khan and several hundred leaders and activists of the front organizations were present at the main gate of Dhaka Central Jail. The leaders and activists of Chhatra Dal left for Dhaka on motorbikes in the car of the secretary general. BNP secretary general's wife Rahat Ara Begum and her personal assistant Yunus Ali were present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury were picked up by the Detective Branch (DB) of police from their Gulshan residence on October 29 and later arrested in a case filed over the attack on the chief justice's residence on the day of BNP's grand rally on October 28.
11 cases were filed against Fakhrul and 10 against Khosru in connection with that clash. Among them, they got bail at various times in all the cases except the attack on the Chief Justice's residence. On Wednesday, Acting Judge Faisal Atiq Bin Quader of the Metropolitan Sessions Court of Dhaka granted bail to the two top BNP leaders in the case of the attack on the residence of the Chief Justice. The two top leaders of BNP were released in the afternoon after the lawyers of the two leaders took the bail orders of various cases, the orders to withdraw the production warrants from Dhaka Central Jail.
The BNP had called a rally on October 28 with a one-point demand of 'the fall of the government' before the national elections. Before noon on that day, after the rally started in front of the Nayapaltan BNP central office, the police clashed with the party's leaders and workers at nearby Kakrail intersection. Later it spread to Shantinagar, Nayapaltan, Vijayanagar, Fakirapool, Arambagh and Dainik Bangla Mor area turned into battlefield. Police box was set on fire during the clash. Police entered the hospital and set an ambulance on fire, vandalizing dozens of other vehicles. The Chief Justice's residence was attacked. Police Constable Amirul Islam Parvez was beaten and hacked to death at Dainik Bangla Junction. Shamim Mollar, leader of Ward No. 7 of Mugda Police Station of Jubo Dal, was killed in the conflict.
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