The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday threatened to dislodge the government to \u2018avenge\u2019 the \u2018killing\u2019 of Supreme Court lawyer MU Ahmed.
\n\u2018We 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,\u2019 BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a protest rally in front of the party\u2019s Naya Paltan central office before the namaj-e-janaza of the lawyer.
\nThe rally was organised as part of BNP\u2019s countrywide demonstrations in protest at the \u2018killing\u2019 of MU Ahmed in \u2018police custody\u2019. 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.
\nMU Ahmed, a former deputy attorney general, died at Square Hospital in the capital in \u2018police custody\u2019 on Friday.
\nAfter the janaza, the party activists brought out a procession carrying the coffin that ended in front of the National Press Club.
\n\u2018MU Ahmed was brutally killed by the government. Such death in police custody cannot be thought of in a civilised country,\u2019 Mirza Fakhrul said.
\nDistrict units of the BNP also brought out processions and held rallies in protest against MU Ahmed\u2019s \u2018death in custody\u2019.
\nNew Age correspondent in Natore reported that BNP\u2019s district unit staged a demonstration and held a protest rally in the town. District BNP senior vice-president Kazi Golum Morshed chaired the rally.
\nNew Age correspondent in Manikganj reported that local unit of BNP brought out a procession and held a rally in the town in the morning.<\/p>\n

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