Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday said that deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was now staying in India, was spreading rumours, false information and inciting violence.
BNP chairperson鈥檚 advisory council member Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, meanwhile on the day, urged the interim government to return the house on Shaheed Mainul Road at the Dhaka Cantonment to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The then Awami League regime took the house back.
Rizvi also alleged that Awami League leaders, including Salman F Rahman, were instigating unrest in the garment sector from jail.
He made the statement at a protest rally of the Jatiyatabadi Rickshaw-Van-Auto Drivers鈥� Dal on Friday in front of the BNP Naya Paltan central office in the capital.
The BNP leader said that the interim government was unable to control the prices of daily essentials as the suffering of the people remained the same as before.
The low-income people were suffering amid terrible hardship, he said.
Criticising interim government advisers, the BNP leader said that the government鈥檚 advisers were working like mere jobholders.
He also urged the interim government to take responsibility for the families of the victims of the July-August uprising.
At a separate event marking the 13th founding anniversary of Jatiyatabadi Prochar Dal, BNP chairperson鈥檚 advisory council member Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal came up with the demand for giving the Mainul road house back to the party chairperson.
At the event Alal paid homage to late President and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman by placing a wreath at his grave in the capital.聽
鈥楰haleda Zia was evicted from her residence on Mainul Road even before the case concerning the matter was resolved,鈥� he said, adding that the government should take steps to help her heal from the trauma associated with that house.
On April 8, 2009, the then Awami League government cancelled the allotment of Khaleda鈥檚 Shaheed Mainul Road residence in the Dhaka Cantonment area, citing several irregularities in the allotment within the military zone.
Later, on November 13, 2010, she was evicted from the house where she had lived for 38 years, since her husband Ziaur Rahman served as deputy chief of the army.
About the formation of the new Election Commission, Alal said that BNP had confidence in the newly formed commission.
鈥榃e hope the commission will demonstrate its competence through its actions rather than engaging in excessive rhetoric,鈥� he added.
Mentioning that the formation of the new EC marked the beginning of the electoral process, he sought quick completion of the reform work initiated by the interim government to facilitate the holding of the national election.