BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today addressed at a financial assistance providing ceremony in front of the BNP's Nayapaltan central office, Dhaka. Photo: BSS

DHAKA, Jan 30, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed today said the people will never respond to Awami League's call for a hartal rather they are waiting to see punishment of the party men for their crimes.

"Those who were killed and injured in July uprising, they want justice. A boy like Ahnaf was shot at the order of dictator Sheikh Hasina. 

Sheikh Hasina has no value for women and children but wanted to cling on to the throne. She is a mentally ill woman," he said against the backdrop of AL's call for hartal in February.

Rizvi said this while addressing a financial assistance providing ceremony in front of the BNP's Nayapaltan central office in the capital. The aid was provided to disabled rickshaw puller Mamun at the directive of BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman.

Top terrorists, he said, are wreaking havoc in various places in Dhaka city but no visible actions are seen taken by law enforcement agencies against these terrorists.
 
But whenever a procession came out from this BNP party office during the AL regime, the law enforcement agencies used to launch attack on BNP men from all sides like bees, he added.

"Even if BNP leaders and activists hide in the bamboo garden, RAB and police would go and find them. And today, there is no visible initiative to arrest the criminals and bring peace and order to society," he said.

The BNP leader said those who killed Abu Sayeed and Mugdho are members of law enforcement agencies but they are not being found and brought to justice.
 
He said the state should file cases against the members of law enforcement agencies who carried out massacre during the July mass uprising.

Regarding Salman F. Rahman, an adviser to deposed premier Sheikh Hasina, Rizvi said "Darbesh (Salman) has destroyed the bank, destroyed the stock market. He wants to be born from his own ashes again. But his trial procedure is not moving. 

The interim government should quickly complete the trial of corrupt people like Salman".
 
Rizvi said Sheikh Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed Putul had set up a foundation but the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in its search operation found no foundation at its given location.
 
"When a fraud stays in power, he and she will make his or her children frauds. Sheikh Hasina's family is an example of that," he said.

Atiqur Rahman Rumon, convener of Amra BNP Paribar, chaired the event which was also addressed by the BNP treasurer and a member of the BNP Chairperson's Advisory Council M Rashiduzzaman Millat.