The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 agents, who smuggled thousands of crores of taka were still active in the administration.
The BNP senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, addressing a meeting in Moulvibazar, said that the agents of Hasina would not allow the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government to succeed in their targeted works.
鈥楾he current foreign secretary was an ambassador to Qatar [during the AL regime]. He did not renew the passports of those involved in BNP politics then. Many Bangladeshis had to return home because of his controversial role,鈥� the BNP leader alleged.
The meeting was organised following an event of providing financial assistants to the family of Swarna Das, a 16-year-old school girl, killed by the Border Security Force of India along the Bangladesh-India border in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar on September 1.
At the meeting, Rizvi said that the foreign secretary was an agent of dictator Sheikh Hasina.
鈥楬ow did he become the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? They never want your (Yunus) success. Agents of authoritarian governments like these will constantly challenge you,鈥� he said.
Rizvi alleged that the number of incidents of killing Bangladesh nationals by BSF had been increasing since the fall of the Hasina regime.
鈥楾heir (India) slave Sheikh Hasina has fled the country. That is why, the Indian BSF is now more aggressive. Professor Yunus came to power with people鈥檚 confidence after the people鈥檚 revolution on August 5. We also have confidence in this government,鈥� he said.
The BNP leader, drawing the interim government鈥檚 attention, however, said that early elections should be held keeping the practice of democracy in mind.
He said that BSF shot Swarna to death along the border in the way they had killed Felani Khatun on January 7, 2011.
Qatar BNP general secretary and Moulvibazar District unit BNP adviser Shariful Haque Saju also spoke.