BNP leaders are imprisoned in 'BNP prison': Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the BNP's top leaders have imprisoned their party leaders in a prison named BNP and no one can get out of this prison and take part in polls.

BNP leaders are not allowed to vote in any election, including the parliamentary, upazila and union parishad polls, and the decision comes from abroad which has no relation with the reality, he said while replying to a query from reporters at his office at the secretariat on Thursday.

Dr Hasan said many leaders come out of the 'BNP prison' and many of them submitted their nomination papers on Thursday. Many BNP leaders also realized that the decision not to join the poll was taking the party to destruction, he said.

The minister said BNP is now looking at the sky and the West - in case anything happens. In fact, a political party cannot survive doing such politics, he said.

He said the countrymen have rejected their blockade and hartal programmes and the people are doing their daily jobs as usual. BNP's programmes are fading as festive and joyous moods are prevailing centring the upcoming election, he said.

The information minister hoped that the BNP would return to the trend of good politics leaving their evil politics.

About a comment of TIB over the next polls, Hasan Mahmud said the organization would see a participatory election on the day of the poll. "I would ask the TIB where was their statement when BNP carried out vandalism and attacked the residence of the chief justice, judges complex and hospital and burnt about 19 transports including ambulances on October 28."

He said the TIB releases statements when anyone gets injured, but they didn't release any statement when the terrorists are carrying out arson attacks and killing people. In fact, the TIB has lost the acceptance, he said.

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