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People are living under a foolhardy government, says Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday said it is bad luck for the people of the country as they are living under a foolhardy government.
"How are we doing it is known to all but the ruling quarter situation nobody knows? We know them as they are not doing well. For that they delivered speech scattered advising people to break their fast with plum rather than date," he added.
He said it as a chief guest in a commemoration meeting to mark the 13th anniversary of the death of former Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain organized by Khandaker Delwar Smriti Foundation.
Remembering Khandaker Delwar Hossain contribution in politics Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said in his life time Khandaker Delwar has proved how valiant, powerful and wise he was.
As a politician sometimes Khandaker Delwar Hossain had been felt ashamed for his children's wrongdoing but if they were aware of their duties he could not face it, he said.
BNP central leader and poet Abdul Hye Sikder chaired the event were BNP Chairperson's Advisory Council Member Zainul Abedin Farroque, BNP Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Dr AZM Zahid Hossain and others were spoke.
BNP claims acting chairman's speech distorted by using AI
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday claimed that the party’s acting Chairman Tarique Rahman's speech, which was delivered through zoom app to maintain communication with party leaders and activists, has been distorted with deep fake technology using artificial intelligence (AI).
He said the deep fake video is being spread through a few pro-govt online platforms and media outlets and being used for extorting from BNP’s well-wishers from home and abroad.
Not only acting chairman but also they are making deep fake video of BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and other members, he added.
He said it in a press briefing held at BNP’s Nayapaltan Central Office.
‘BaKSAL 2’ has been established in the country: Dr Abdul Moyeen
Rizvi said after an investigation done by BNP’s IT department they have found that a man named Nahid Rain accused for deception and convicted ied the activity against opposition to degrade their image with the help of Awami League (AL).
It is a matter of great sorrow but the truth is the prime criminal is being promoted in both online and offline by an influential foreigner, he alleged.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi demanded the immediate arrest of Nahid Rain for the crime of extortion in the name of BNP leaders
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said before January 7 dummy election, AL has been published numerous deep fake video on social media of their false development by using various international media’s anchor and logo.
AL government synonymous with syndicate: Rizvi
Moreover, they also made deep fake video about US Dhaka Embassy by using AI, he continued.
Realizing importance of the deep fake video, Financial Times correspondent Benjamin Parkin has published a report on December 14, 2023 where he showed that how a miscreant ring of pro AL is making deep fake video by using AI.
Petition submitted for extending suspension of Khaleda’s jail term, treatment abroad
A petition was submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday seeking another extension of the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's jail term and permission to take her abroad for better treatment.
Khaleda Zia’s younger brother Shamim Eskander submitted the petition saying that her life is at risk.
Earlier on September, 18, 2023 the government extended the conditional suspension of Khaleda Zia’s jail term for another six months. With this, her jail sentence suspension was extended for the eight time.
AL government synonymous with syndicate: Rizvi
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order by suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house and would not leave the country. Since then, her release term has been extended every six months following the family's plea.
Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later, she was found guilty and convicted in another corruption case the same year.
AL establishes oligarchs denying mass people’s demand, alleges Moyeen
Khaleda, a 78-year-old former prime minister, has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, eye problems.
‘BaKSAL 2’ has been established in the country: Dr Abdul Moyeen
BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said that “BaKSAL 2” has been established in the country.
Dr Abdul Moyeen made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting Dhaka district Jubo Dal’s former president Rezaul Karim Paul’s residence, who was recently out of jail.
Dr Abdul Moyeen said, “You know that in the past the BaKSAL had been established in the parliament by killing democracy. Now, there is no room for opposition voices. This is the reality of Bangladesh today.”
“We have said repeatedly that it’s impossible to wipe out the opposition through suppression,” he said.
AL government synonymous with syndicate: Rizvi
“We believe in the power of the people. BNP founder Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, who also declared the independence of the country, had said that people are the source of all power,” he added.
“They say BNP was born in the cantonment… I don’t know from where they got this information, but I want to clarify this. Ziaur Rahman was a soldier but he reinstated multi-party democracy by freeing it from BaKSAL rule. On the other hand, AL claims they are a pro-democracy and pro-independence party, but they have established a one-party BaKSAL rule by stealing democracy,” the senior BNP leader said.
“This is the difference between AL and BNP,” he said.
“AL claims they are a pro-democratic political party, so why are they killing democracy in the country? — Dr Moyeen raised the question.
“The founding spirit of Bangladesh was democracy. Fifty-three years ago, we had said that under the Pakistan structure, no democracy is possible, and for that Bangladesh was formed,” the BNP leader said.
“The beauty of democracy is in the coexistence of ruling and opposition parties, but AL does not believe that,” Dr Abdul Moyeen said.
AL government synonymous with syndicate: Rizvi
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday said the Awami League government is known to the people as a syndicate and plunderer.
After failing to control the soaring prices of daily commodities, AL has let loose Chatra League to attack on Muslim devotees' iftar arrangement, he alleged.
When AL comes to state power, it undermines the religious belief of Muslims and their culture and suppress the alem-ulemas (Islamic scholars) community. They do it to please their master, he claimed.
Rizvi made the comments at a press briefing held at BNP Nayapalton Central office.
All kinds of programme except Iftar are allowed to organise on university premises where AL leaders Obaidul Quader and Hasan Mahmud were present to glorify the occasion. But Iftar organisers have suffered from AL attack. It is a part of conspiracy against Muslims, Rizvi stated.
When Muslims want to celebrate any occasion, why Quader and his party's men feel ashamed, askef the BNP leader.
Sometimes, AL uses Islam for their interest, sometimes throwsvit away, he alleged.
The majority Muslim people of the country are going to lose their culture and values as they have already lost their right to vote, he alleged.
“Dummy AL government could not care less about poor people's voice also," he said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fails to hear the ‘SOS message’ of hungry people in this Ramadan, he claimed.
AL resorts to corruption and misuse of power as one of their former ministers owned more than 350 assets in London worth two hundred million pound. Besides, they have laundered money to Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Europe, Australia and America, he continued.
Rizvi said after January 7 dummy election the AL’s one and only agenda is to wipe out the BNP from politics.
As part of their plan, they are not allowing former PM Khaleda Zia to go abroad for better treatment besides spreading slander against Tarique Rahman to tarnish his image, he said.
Noting that a few media houses have lost their sense, the BNP leader said that without any proper investigation and fact check and only to please Sheikh Hasina they have made it as a habit to publish news against BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman.
The people now believe that yesterday a report was published on a daily newspaper’s online version following the prescription of an intelligence agency, Rizvi added.
The newspaper could not maintain neutrality as an institution, he alleged.
AL is distorting the history of Liberation War, says BNP leader Major Hafiz
Former minister and BNP Vice Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Thursday alleged that the ruling Awami League is responsible for distorting the history of the country’s great liberation war.
He said this after attending a meeting of BNP’s committee for celebrating the upcoming Independence Day in which he was made the convenor.
Major Hafiz said the independence achieved in 1971 is a matter of pride for the Banglee nation. He regretted that 53 years after the independence the history of liberation war is being made debatable.
The history of liberation war is being written every day like a story and a poem, he said.
During the war the number of freedom fighters was 80,000 or 100, 000, but now “we are seeing about 250, 000 are getting allowance along with other benefits as freedom fighters, Hafiz said.
People are being kept in dark about how the war of independence had started, he added.
AL establishes oligarchs denying mass people’s demand, alleges Moyeen
The armed war of independence started after 25 March crackdown by Pakistani military. The people of the country had sacrificed their lives to bring the independence. The ruling AL doesn’t talk about it because they have no contribution in the war of independence, he claimed.
Major Zia’s declaration of independence influenced the people from every corner to join the liberation war, he said. World community came to know after Zia’s announcement. But the ruling quarter jokes about Zia’s declaration saying that “guard rang the bell”, Hafiz said.
The BNP vice-chairman said Major Zia was one of the lionhearted freedom fighters and also sector commander who led the war staying in the battle field while other sector commanders stayed in India.
But the AL portrays him as the agent of Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) to misguide the young generation, he said.
BNP will get more isolated if it continues movement during Ramadan: Quader
Major Hafiz alleged that the war of independence is being distorted as the AL claims all credit ignoring the contribution hundreds of thousands of students, youth and solders.
Some political parties who had no contribution in Bangladesh war of independence have hijacked the independence and all achievements, he added.
AL establishes oligarchs denying mass people’s demand, alleges Moyeen
BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Wednesday alleged that the ruling Awami League (AL) has established the oligarchs in the country denying the mass people’s demand.
He said they have created conducive environment for 220 well-off families to control the country’s almost all sectors while the number of such families was 22 during Pakistan regime.
Dr Moyeen made the comments while visiting BNP Dhaka Metropolitan South unit's member secretary Rafiqul Alam Majnu at his Shajahanpur residence who recently walked out of jail after serving about 10 months in prison.
CNG stations to remain closed for 6 hrs, not 5 hrs
Mentioning a German-based research organisation’s report, he said Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world where rich-poor wealth gap is high and becoming a billionaire within a short time is possible in the country.
Dr Moyeen said BNP is waging movement against the current regime to restore rights of people, not to capture sate power.
He said BNP wants to reconstruct the state where people will enjoy their rights and will live with honor and dignity without any discrimination for religion or race.
Moyeen, a former minister and a BNP standing committee member, said BNP doesn’t believe in using muscle power for establishing democracy in the country, rather in peaceful movement.
Alleging Awami League for establishing ‘totalitarian politics’ in the country, the BNP leader said this kind of politics will destroy the party itself in future.
BNP to host iftar for orphans, Islamic scholars today
He said they are pro-liberation political party, but they are the only a party which dishonors more the sprit of the Liberation War , he claimed.
Terming January 7 election a farce, Moyeen Khan said world’s powerful media like The Economist, Washington Post assessed this election as one-sided and labeled Bangladesh a country of one-party rule.
The BNP senior leader said after October 28 crackdown on BNP rally, the government arrested about 26000 leaders and activists of the party while in the last 15 years they have filed about one lakh false and ghost cases where more than 50 lakh people were accused.
BNP to host iftar for orphans, Islamic scholars today
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will host an iftar party fororphan students and alem-ulema (Islamic scholars) on Tuesday, the first day of the fasting month of Holy Ramadan.
The programme will be held at the capital’s Ladies Club.
BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan has confirmed the matter to the media.
Advice to eat plum in Iftar is mockery with people’s religious belief: Abbas
BNP leader Mirza Abbas on Monday said a minister’s suggestion to break the fast with plum during Ramadan is mockery about people’s religious belief.
Like the people’s voting right, now they are making mockery about the people religious beliefs, he said.
Mirza Abbas, a BNP standing committee member, made the comments while talking to reporters at a press briefing at his Shajahanpur residence in the morning.
AL weaponising Cyber Security Act to humiliate opposition: Rizvi
“The ruling party leaders will break their fast during Iftar with pricy and imported fruits but advising people to eat plum, what a responsible government they are?”
Replying to a query Mirza Abbas said during Awami League the people of the country can’t preform their religious activities without pressure and fear due to skyrocketing prices of as the daily commodities.
People are passing a horrible time due tp the high price daily essentials whereas Awami League doesn’t bother about the citizens’ sufferings, he added.
The BNP leader said his party is continuing the movement not to capture the state power , rather to restore people’s rights. “Until we achieve the goal, we will continue the movement against the government.”
He claimed that ruling Awami League (AL) and its local and international associates had made a plot in very beginning so that BNP could not participate in the national election.
The massive attack on BNP’s grand rally on October 28 was the part of conspiracy to keep BNP away from polls, he alleged.
No political prisoners in jail, only BNP activists: Home Minister
Mirza Abbas said after a ‘dummy election’, the ‘dummy government’ is not enjoying their time freely as they are always in fear about losing power.
Narrating his prison life, BNP leader said, “This time jail life was horrible as we were deprived of all rights.”
Mirza Abbas said the BNP leaders and activists are ‘captive in AL prison’.
AL weaponising Cyber Security Act to humiliate opposition: Rizvi
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said the Awami League government is using the Cyber Security Act as a tool to suppress the opposition’s leaders and activists.
He made the comments in a discussion programme to mark the ninth founding anniversary of Zia Cyber Force as a chief guest at BNP Nayapalton central office.
"As a politician we are used to prison one or twice in a year. During my jail life I have met a lot of young inmates who were jailed for writing against the misrule of AL," he said.
Power sector in deep crisis: Rizvi
Even women are not safe from the AL rage as a Jagannath University (JnU) female student's case shows, Rizvi said.
"I strongly believe that those who are active in social media are more genius than others.," Rizvi said.
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