DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general on Thursday said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the blockade would continue until the victory is achieved.

The senior BNP leader made the remark in a statement sent to media.

Rizvi said, “The ruling Awami League has grabbed the country getting only five percent vote. They are ruling the nation by creating sabotage, terrorism, clash and murder as they lack public support.”

He added: “The incumbent government is using their forces to stop the opinion and criticism from the opposition.”

Moreover, they are also using power to eliminate the opponents. The AL made the people opponent of the law enforcers to save their illegal entity, he observed.

Claiming that the incumbent government uttering falsehood, the BNP leader added, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina always says that there is democracy in the country.

“She has begun a new type of democracy locking the BNP central office, confining BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in her office, keeping sand and bricks-laden trucks in front of the office, arresting large number of leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and stopping telecast and publication of opponents’ speech.”

However, this one-party democracy is Awami League’s tradition, he remarked.

Expressing his deep concern, Rizvi said people of the country are in panic situation for the prevailing political unrest. After assuming power, Hasina spent most of the time against BNP and its founder Ziaur Rahman’s family.

He urged people to make the hartal, called as a protest of attack on BNP chairperson’s adviser and former state minister for foreign affairs Reaz Rahman, a success.

BDST: 1756 HRS, JAN 15, 2015