Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) strongly condemned a nuclear neighbor's "threat to directly interfere" in Bangladesh's internal affairs and urged the country's patriotic-nationalist forces to remain alert and united at this critical hour.
The protest came in resolutions adopted in a meeting of the BNP national standing committee, party's highest policymaking body, chaired by chairperson and former premier Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Tuesday night.
BNP secretary-general Khondoker Delwar Hossain, reading out the
resolutions at a press briefing at Begum Zia's Gulshan office yesterday noon, said the standing-committee meeting was observing
with deep concern reports published in various newspapers at home and abroad that a big neighboring state is issuing threat of "naked interference" in Bangladesh's domestic matters.
He mentioned that a policymaking-level leader of that 'atomic power' at a recent meeting clearly said that country would not sit idle if opposition against the present government of Bangladesh turned for the extreme.
Delwar quoted that person having further stated that, if necessary, they would directly intervene in Bangladesh affairs.
"The standing-committee meeting firmly mentioned that aggressive and expansionist attitude got exposed through such kind of threat which is a violation of international laws, norms and courtesy," he said.
At the same time, this attitude is threat to the regional peace, stability and security as well as runs contrary to the principle of establishing honest neighborly relations on the basis of sovereign equality and sprit of South Asian regional cooperation, Dewar read
the meeting's resolution
He said the standing committee was surprised as the government side did not make any protest.
The meeting also expressed concern over what was described as relentless fictitious smear campaign against Bangladesh by the intelligence and media of that big neighboring country. "That false propaganda got intensified recently after the BDR headquarters carnage," it noted.
The BNP standing committee thinks that such naked propaganda is being carried out from the desire of "interfering and spreading supremacy in Bangladesh".
"The key objective of this false campaign is to gather support from the international community to their planned aggression," Delwar said, without naming that country.
He felt that statements of some leaders of the ruling party of Bangladesh matched with the malice campaign of that country.
The major objective of the campaign is to hide the mastermind behind the scene and sponsors through misleading the investigation into Peelkhana's tragic incident.
The standing-committee meeting demanded the recasting of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to make it effective and trustworthy to restore the nation's confidence in the watchdog body.
The BNP secretary general said presently the institution is totally "dysfunctional and playing the pawn into the government's hands".
He further said the ACC is trying to be in the good books of the government through carrying out campaign and filing "false" cases against opposition leaders and workers.
"The ACC has already turned into a controversial institution due to its activities during the last emergency rule," he told the journalists, a day after it sued BNP chief's younger son, Arafat Rahman Koko, and also notified her brother Major (rtd) Syed Iskander for submitting statement of his wealth.
Replying to a question about the filing of the money-laundering case against Koko, he said, "The government is doing whatever it wishes as everything, including ACC and police, is under their control."
Replying to a question on BDR investigation he said people are in doubt and confusion over fair, transparent and neutral investigation following the appointment of a Minster, also a politician of the ruling party, as coordinator for the probe committees.
Delwar said the minister was made coordinator to make the report of the investigation according to the ruling party's wish.
The standing-committee meeting expressed concern over recent return Bangladeshi workforce from various countries following termination from their jobs, cancellation of 25 percent order for Bangladeshi RMG items on international market, deterioration of law and order, increase in dacoity, extortion, terrorism, repression and attack on of BNP and its front organizations' activists.
It also expressed concern over heightening "instability through massive harassment in all spheres, including civil and police administrations, by the three-month-old government".
The meeting expressed agony as the opposition is not allowed to play its role in parliament. "Rather the ruling party and the Speaker have already turned parliament into a centre of baseless campaign against opposition, as a result of which the parliament has become dysfunctional," said the BNP high-up.
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