DHAKA, Aug 20, 2024 (BSS) - BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said India has broken its pledge of democracy by sheltering ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

He told reporters after paying homage to mazar of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman at Sher-E-Bangla Nagar here.

Newly appointed BNP standing committee members Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and Dr AZM Zahid Hossain were present on the occasion.

Fakhrul said fascist ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in the face of the student-people revolution. "It is unfortunate that our neighbouring country has sheltered her. Staying there, Hasina has started conspiracy to foil the victory of Bangladesh," he said.

The BNP secretary general said the country's people has not seen the offenses of Sheikh Hasina as narrow ones, while her 15-year misrules has weakened the independence of the country.

Claiming that Sheikh Hasina put the nation in a trap of debt of Taka 18 lakh crore, he said US$ 100 billion was siphoned off abroad during her tenures.

Fakhrul urged India to extradite offender Sheikh Hasina to the Bangladesh showing respect to law.
 
About the next general elections, he said the interim government was formed following a student-people revolution and its main task is to hand over the state power to a democratic government through polls.

The BNP leader said the interim government will take a little to clean up the rubbishes the last Awami League government produced. So, he said, the country's people will give the time that the interim government requires.

Regarding the cases filed countrywide after the fall of the AL government, Fakhrul said the period of the interim government is only 11 days, so the works it has already done are commendable.