RANGPUR, Dec 16, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu has said that Sheikh Hasina is more dangerous than her father Sheikh Mujib.
 
“There is no count of how many thousands of mothers Hasina has emptied their chests in the last 16 years. She has made 2000 leaders and activists, including BNP's former Organizing Secretary M Ilias Ali, disappear or end their lives by sending them to mirror rooms (Ayna Ghar),” he claimed.
 
Dudu said this while addressing as the chief guest at a brief street rally in front of the BNP party office at the Grand Hotel intersection in the city on Monday afternoon.
 
Dudu said that Sheikh Hasina used to say with pride that Mujib's daughter does not run away. But, she has run such a race that no one else in the country has been able to run like this. Or is she thinking of returning?
 
“I want you (Hasina) to come to the country. You will have to answer for how many people you have killed how many lakhs or crores of Taka you have laundered? You have killed democracy and endangered freedoms,” he said.
 
Dudu said, “You (Hasina) must also answer why you turned the people of Bangladesh into slaves of India.”
 
“We want to build Bangladesh, for which the war of independence was fought. Just as Shaheed Zia made food self-sufficient, gave work to workers, and ensured employment to the unemployed, Tarique Rahman and Begum Khaleda Zia want to build Bangladesh,” he said.
 
Dudu said, “We know how to give blood, we know how to protest, we know how to make sacrifices. BNP does not bow down to anyone except Allah.”
 
The BNP Vice-chairman said, in 1971, Shaheed Ziaur Rahman declared independence of the country from Kalurghat Betar Kendra, ‘I, Major Ziaur Rahman, declare the independence of Bangladesh.’
 
“There was no declaration beyond this declaration. Some of the country's deceivers have told various lies to belittle Shaheed Zia,” he said.
 
Shamsuzzaman Dudu said, after independence, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman single-handedly seized power and killed 40,000 opposition party members with his ‘Rakshi Bahini’ in three and a half years.
 
“He (Sheikh Mujib) caused famine and pushed millions of people to death. At that time, Basanti of the North wore fishing net to cover her body since she had no clothe to wear,” Dudu mentioned.
 
With Rangpur Metropolitan BNP convener Shamsuzzaman Samu in the chair, BNP's Rangpur Divisional Assistant Secretary Abdul Khaleque addressed the street rally.
 
Metropolitan BNP Member-secretary Advocate Mahfuz-un-Nabi Don, district BNP convener Md Saiful Islam, district BNP leader Emdadul Haque Bharsha, metropolitan BNP Joint Convener Shahidul Islam Mizu, BNP leader Abdus Salam and others were presen.
 
Later, a huge Victory Rally was brought out on the streets with participation of thousands of leaders and workers of district and metropolitan BNP, Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, Swechchasebak Dal, Zia Mancha, Krishak Dal, Sramik Dal, Mohila Dal and JASAS.