The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday threatened to dislodge the government to ‘avenge’ the ‘killing’ of Supreme Court lawyer MU Ahmed.
‘We do not know how lawyers would take the death of MU Ahmed or whether they would take revenge, but we must avenge the killing by ousting the fascist government,’ BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a protest rally in front of the party’s Naya Paltan central office before the namaj-e-janaza of the lawyer.
The rally was organised as part of BNP’s countrywide demonstrations in protest at the ‘killing’ of MU Ahmed in ‘police custody’. Party leaders Moudud Ahmed, Nazrul Islam Khan, Mirza Abbas, Moyeen Khan, Hannan Shah and Abdullah Al Noman, among others, spoke at the rally presided over by its city unit convener and mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
MU Ahmed, a former deputy attorney general, died at Square Hospital in the capital in ‘police custody’ on Friday.
After the janaza, the party activists brought out a procession carrying the coffin that ended in front of the National Press Club.
‘MU Ahmed was brutally killed by the government. Such death in police custody cannot be thought of in a civilised country,’ Mirza Fakhrul said.
District units of the BNP also brought out processions and held rallies in protest against MU Ahmed’s ‘death in custody’.
New Age correspondent in Natore reported that BNP’s district unit staged a demonstration and held a protest rally in the town. District BNP senior vice-president Kazi Golum Morshed chaired the rally.
New Age correspondent in Manikganj reported that local unit of BNP brought out a procession and held a rally in the town in the morning.
Courtesy of New Age
