The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain yesterday sought intervention of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to inquire into how the spinal cord of former Tarique Rahman, son of former prime minister, was broken and human rights violations in other cases in Bangladesh.

He made the appeal while addressing a meeting of the Nabo Chetana Juba Forum at a hotel in the city Hotel Grand Azad in the city yesterday afternoon.

The BNP Secretary General asked the Government to make statement on how Tarique's spinal cord was broken.

Presided over by Maulana Mohiuddin Ahmad, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

Terming the local government elections a test case for the Government before holding the general elections, he said the Government wants to elect people of its choice through 'stage-managed' elections.

Khondoker Delwar said the Government wanted to form an electoral college with more than 600 chairmen and members of the local-government institutions to elect the country's President.

He alleged the Government wanted to run the country with the help of foreign lackeys in the disguise of friends.

The BNP leader emphasised the need for building unity of the people to foil any conspiracy against the country.

He said the country is passing thorough a crisis alleging that a non-elected government has relished the taste of power and wants to hang on to it.