Moudud wants to take streets along with legal battle

Senior Correspondent: BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed urged his party leaders and activities to get ready for a strong movement to have Khaleda freed from jail.

He said, “We would be there on the streets alongside carrying out a legal battle. The legal fight has its limitation, but there’s no limitation to people’s movement.”

The BNP leader said this while speaking at a programme demanding Khaleda’s release from jail at the Jatiya Press Club on Friday.

Feni’s Jatiyatabadi Chhatra and Jubo Forum in Dhaka arranged the programme.

Moudud said their current movement will gradually turn into a decisive one to force the government to release Khaleda and arrange the next polls under a non-party administration.

He also termed eyewash the formation of a medical team by the government for their chairperson Khaleda Zia who fell sick in jail.

“The government has formed the medical board as part of a strategy to mislead people. They (govt) have an evil-intention behind it,” he added.

The BNP leader urged the government to immediately allow Khaleda’s personal physicians to visit her and ensure proper treatment for her.

As per the amended jail code, he said, Khaleda Zia’s personal physicians have no barrier to providing her treatment in prison.

Moudud, a BNP standing committee member, said the government is trying to weaken their party chief both physically and mentally by not ensuring treatment for her.

He warned that the country’s people will not forgive the government if Khaleda’s health condition deteriorates due to its negligence.

Moudud also said their party will surely join the next polls under a non-party neutral government after freeing Khaleda from jail.

On April 1, the government formed a medical team comprising four professors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to examine her health condition and ensure her treatment in jail.

On February 8 last, a special court in Dhaka sentenced Khaleda to five years' rigorous imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

 

risingbd/Dhaka/April 06, 2018/Reza/A K Azad