BNP Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan has said that the government would not be able to quash the opposition movement even if they made more arrests.
He was talking to reporters after the party's Education Secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon and two others were detained from the party headquarters during the countrywide day-long shutdown on Thursday.
Cordoned by law enforcers, the BNP leader said, "The government would make a mistake if they think that the movement and the BNP can be weakened by making arrests and filing cases."
"Rather, arrests and oppression would give the agitation more momentum," he added.
Nazrul claimed that the people have been observing the shutdown spontaneously.
He criticised government's 'oppression' and said, "The government activities indicate that it has been weakened and feeling insecure. That's why it has resorted to oppressing opposition."
Criticising Khokon's detention, he said, "He was detained from in front of the party office. He was talking there and was chanting slogans. He did not set alight any vehicles or vandalise anything. Why was he arrested?"
Asked about the future course of the opposition, the BNP leader said, "It will depend on the government's behaviour. Party and [opposition] alliance chief [Khaleda Zia] will decide."
On Wednesday, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The opposition alliance is enforcing a nationwide shutdown on Thursday protesting the court decision.
He was talking to reporters after the party's Education Secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon and two others were detained from the party headquarters during the countrywide day-long shutdown on Thursday.
Cordoned by law enforcers, the BNP leader said, "The government would make a mistake if they think that the movement and the BNP can be weakened by making arrests and filing cases."
"Rather, arrests and oppression would give the agitation more momentum," he added.
Nazrul claimed that the people have been observing the shutdown spontaneously.
He criticised government's 'oppression' and said, "The government activities indicate that it has been weakened and feeling insecure. That's why it has resorted to oppressing opposition."
Criticising Khokon's detention, he said, "He was detained from in front of the party office. He was talking there and was chanting slogans. He did not set alight any vehicles or vandalise anything. Why was he arrested?"
Asked about the future course of the opposition, the BNP leader said, "It will depend on the government's behaviour. Party and [opposition] alliance chief [Khaleda Zia] will decide."
On Wednesday, a Dhaka court ordered into jail BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other leaders after refusing them bail in a case filed over torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister's Office during a shutdown on Apr 29.
The opposition alliance is enforcing a nationwide shutdown on Thursday protesting the court decision.
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