DHAKA: Opposition BNP sees Thursday`s government restriction holding back party leaders and activists from getting in to receive their chairperson Khaleda Zia at the airport  as part of its attempt to "enforce Baksal system once again".

“The government is trying to execute ‘Baksal’ politics again by keeping Khaleda Zia isolated from the party leaders and the countrymen. And Thursday’s incident was part of that attempt to implement the plan,” said BNP Joint Secretary-General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a press briefing Friday at the party’s Naya Paltan office.

He also termed the government obstruction ‘anti-democratic and apolitical.’

“The government should have permitted standing committee members of the party to get in as most of them were former ministers,” Rizvi added.

He announced that BNP will observe September 11 as the second anniversary of Khaleda’s release day, marking the ex-PM`s release from jail towards the end of the emergency regime that had thrown almost all top politicians of the country behind bars following the 1/11changeover.

BDST: 1452 HRS, SEP 10, 2010.