The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday served a show cause notice on its chairperson鈥檚 adviser Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu for his remark that media offices would be set on fire if the picture of Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was published.
The notice, signed by BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, asked Quddus to give his reply within 24 hours.
The notice said that his statement published on Friday in different media outlets said that television stations and newspaper houses would be burnt if Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 picture was aired or published.
鈥楾his statement of yours is totally conflicting with the principles and ideals of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party,鈥� it said, adding that the BNP is a liberal and the largest democratic political party in the country.
鈥楾he party never tolerates any criminal activities. For the past 16 years, while fighting for democracy, the leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies have suffered severe persecution by the dictatorial government,鈥� it said.
鈥楻ecently, students and people had given their lives in a movement toppling the fascist Awami League government, which has created the awakening of democracy in the country. Your statement has tarnished that too,鈥� it added.
It said that the statement made by Quddus was deliberate, ill-intentioned and an attack on the democratic spirit of the BNP.聽 As a central leader of the BNP, his statement amounts to belittling the glorious contribution of BNP鈥檚 uninterrupted democratic struggle over the past decade and a half, the notice added.
