Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member AZM Zahid Hossain on Friday said that the Awami League was dreaming of returning to power through a conspiracy.
He said, 鈥楽he [Sheikh Hasina] has fled, leaving the party leaders and activists in the country. Her cohorts are still hatching conspiracies and creating unrest.鈥�
Zahid Hossain came up with the remarks while speaking as chief guest at a relief distribution programme for flood victims arranged by the BNP in Feni on Friday.
He urged the interim government to bring the AL leaders and activists to book for their involvement in crimes, including killing and looting property of BNP people in the past.
Zahid also mentioned that around 700 BNP people were victims of enforced disappearance, 1,100 leaders and activists were killed in the past 17 years while more than 100 party people were killed during the recent student-led mass uprising.
The AL people looted businesses of the BNP people and grabbed property of minorities, but the BNP stood by the country people, he added.
He hoped the role of law would be established in the country soon and the BNP would remain in the field until it ensured the rights of the people in the country.
Later, the BNP leader along with Dhaka South city unit convener Rafiqul Alam Majnu distributed relief among the flood victims.
BNP also arranged a relief distribution programme in the Lakshmipur town where BNP joint secretary general Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and its international affairs committee member Ishraque Hossain were present, among others.
Annie urged the Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government to ensure enough relief for the flood-affected people in Lakshmipur.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, meanwhile, on Friday paid a courtesy call on veteran journalist Shafik Rehman at his residence at New Eskaton of Dhaka.
During the visit, Rizvi exchanged views with Shafik Rehman and inquired about his health.
On August 18, Shafik Rehman returned to Bangladesh after six years in the United Kingdom.
He had left the country in 2018.
On August 17, 2023, Shafik Rehman, along with Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, and three others, was sentenced to seven years in prison in a case filed on charges of a conspiracy to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
On August 3, 2015, a police officer filed the case against them with the Paltan police station.
Shafik Rehman was arrested on April 16, 2016, in connection with the case and later, he was released on bail and had to leave the country.