BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the government to step down instead of trying to buy more time and indulging in killing and bloodshed.

In a statement on Saturday, he also called upon the law enforcement agencies and the administration not to torture and shoot the students as per the unjust orders of the Awami League regime.

“I call upon the murderous government to stop the killing, torture, suppression, persecution, terrorism and accept the demands of the students without delaying another moment, taking any more lives, shedding any more blood and creating violence,” the BNP leader said.

In the statement, he also demanded the unconditional release of the BNP and other opposition party leaders and workers and the ordinary students, who were unjustly arrested in false cases and also demanded the withdrawal of the cases.

Fakhrul alleged that the government is pushing the country towards an extreme conflict by providing the ruling party cadres with the arms, to suppress the movement by killing and torturing the students and people. “Constantly they are showing their fascist character by doing these imprudent activities.”

He said the movement of the students cannot be suppressed by resorting to terrorism, attacks, lawsuits, following the mass awakening that has emerged in the entire country, including villages and cities.

“The Awami League government is solely responsible for all the killings, destruction, anarchy and crisis as it tried to brutally suppress the student-led mass movement,” the BNP leader said.

He said the government has killed humanity by brutally and cruelly killing several hundred students, even innocent little children, by publicly announcing to suppress the movement.

Fakhrul alleged that law enforcers and the ruling party’cadres continued attacking the students and people in different parts of the country, including in Cumilla, Jamalpur and Sylhet.

He strongly condemned the attacks and harassment of innocent people and the the associated 'arrest trade'.