The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Taking a hot tip from his detained party chief, BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday asked the leaders and workers of BNP and its fronts to remain prepared for movement to bring down what he called "parasite" government.

Addressing a discussion marking slain President Ziaur Rahman's anniversary of death at the Engineers Institute, he called for building a united movement irrespective of party affiliation against the government.

"Downfall of the parasite government will be ensured through movement," Delwar said in a hard-hitting statement a day after his one-to-one parley with detained BNP chairperson and immediate-past PM Khaleda Zia at her trial court Sunday.

Referring to the guidelines he received from her, Delwar, handpicked by the party chief as secretary general before her arrest, said what she stated in the dock, that this government is a 'parasite' and 'illegal' government, was her guideline.

The BNP secretary general alleged that the caretaker government is arresting political leaders and workers in a bid to thwart the movement against it.

"In the name of curbing terrorism, the government is curbing politics," he told the audience.

Delwar noted that something may be earned by using the state of emergency but not everything.

"None can achieve a big result through conspiracy or any such means," he said, adding that the present government will also have to learn a lesson from the past history.

The BNP leader felt that conspiracy is on against BNP, but such conspiracy wouldn't see success, like in the past.

Presided over by JCD acting president Sultan Salahuddin Tokon, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by BNP leaders Selima Rahman, Nazrul Islam Khan, Goyeswar Chandra Roy and Rizvi Ahmed, JCD general secretary Sahfiul Bari Babu, JCD ex-president Shahabuddin Laltu and leaders of BNP's front organizations.