BNP Will Stay in the Field Alongside the Administration to Stop Sabotage: Rizvi

The BNP will stay active in the field across the whole country, alongside the administration, to resist any sabotage by the activity-banned Awami League. BNP acting secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the comment while speaking to reporters on Sunday (15 November) after paying respects, on behalf of the new committee of Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP, at the shrines of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia and former president Ziaur Rahman.

Raising allegations about the current situation, the BNP leader said: 'The activity-banned Awami League is secretly carrying out sabotage with instigation from a neighbouring country. It is setting vehicles on fire and creating unrest in the garment sector.'

Rizvi further alleged that workers are not being allowed to enter the garment factories owned by the Awami League.

Saying that this attempt of theirs will fail, he added: 'They want to achieve their own interests by sacrificing the country's interests. This will not succeed; they are being arrested every day.'

At one stage of his remarks, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi raised the subject of Sheikh Hasina's sentence and said: 'The deposed Hasina has been punished today; if she returns in any way, her sentence will be carried out.'