Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday alleged that the conspiracy of the defeated forces did not stop and they still wanted to foil the victory of student-people that ensured the fall of Sheikh Hasina.
鈥楾hey [defeated forces] hide like hyenas, can attack any time. Democracy needs to be established by resisting them,鈥� BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a commemoration meeting to pay homage to the July student-mass movement.
The party organised the programme at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka.
He said that people鈥檚 expectations to the interim government were to create a level playing field and establish a democratic government through impartial elections.
Urging the nation to be united against the conspirators, Fakhrul also said that those who had been struggling for 16 years needed to be detected.
He said that 700 people had been killed, many were sent to secret detention centres, and many were brutally tortured during the regime of Hasina.
He demanded compensation and allowances for those who were killed and injured in the democratic movement in the past 16 years.
He said that the government should speak strongly about the issues.
The family members of the people who were killed and disappeared during Hasina鈥檚 rule in the past 16 years attended the meeting.
Leaders of different parties in the simultaneous movement with BNP also spoke.