DHAKA, Sept 10, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today said the people have been freed from the fears of enforced disappearances, killings and extrajudicial killings in the autocracy-free environment achieved through the sacrifices of students and masses.

"Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wanted to seize the power forever. She used to patronize the looters and their cohorts for grabbing the country's property and those who spoke out against such acts became victims of enforced disappearance and were kept in Aynaghar," he said.

Rizvi said while talking to journalists after attending a cheque distribution programme on behalf of BNP's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman for families of martyrs of anti-discrimination student movement in Matuail area of Jatrabari in the capital.

He said Sheikh Hasina wanted to hold on to power after killings thousands of people.

Noting that fallen autocrat Sheikh Hasina's wrongdoings and offences know no bounds, the BNP leader said if she had courage in her heart, she would not have fled the country.

He said the interim government should keep up the comfortable environment prevailing in the country following the resignation of the 'woman pharaoh'.

Rizvi urged Chief Adviser of the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus to look into that the cohorts of the defeated autocrat cannot raise their heads again.

Urging the journalists to play robust role to this end, he urged them not to bow to anyone's pressure.

Mentioning that so-called intellectuals are making various comments, he asked Syed Jamil Ahmed, who is newly appointed as the director general of Shilpakala Academy, that what kind of state he wanted to form with such intellectuals.

"Do you (Jamil Ahmed) want to bring back Sheikh Hasina? If you return Sheikh Hasina, you may have been facilitated but the entire nation would turn into slave again and confined to Sheikh Hasina and her lord India," he said.

The BNP spokesperson said the interim government appointed 25 deputy commissioners (DCs) on Monday but all of them were men of Chhatra League, who won't work for the democracy.

The DCs will patronize those who created Aynaghar, concealed the murders of Sagar-Runi and committed wrongdoings one after another, he mentioned.

Noting that all have faith in the interim government, Rizvi said Dr Muhammad Yunus is a respectable personality to all but they have to look into that if cohorts of the dangerous defeated autocratic force raise their heads again, the autocratic situation will be created again.

"Amra BNP Paribar" platform's convener journalist Atikur Rahman Rumon, member secretary Moksedul Momin Mithun, Dhaka University's teacher Professor Saiful Islam, Swechchhasebak Dal leader Arifur Rahman Tushar, Jubo Dal leader Mehbub Masum Shanto and Chhatra Dal leader Touhidur Rahman Awal were present, among others.