BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia delivering her speech at Niaz Mohammad High School Ground in Brahmanbaria yesterday. Photo: Star BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the government restored parliament's powers to remove judges in a bid to keep them in fear and force them to give verdicts against opposition leaders and activists. “If the judges don't punish the opposition men, Sheikh Hasina will
remove them by using two-thirds majority in the illegal parliament,” she said. Khaleda was speaking at a rally organised by the BNP-led 20-party alliance at Niaz Mohammad High School ground in Brahmanbaria. She said the alliance already observed a day-long hartal demanding cancellation of the 16th amendment to the constitution, and it would go for tougher programmes if the government didn't scrap the amendment immediately. Dismissing ruling party leaders' clams that the BNP-led alliance was on the verge of a collapse, Khaleda, also chief of the combine, said it would become stronger and united in the days to come. The former premier said she was not at all afraid of arrest, and that the government would face dire consequences if she was detained. “They are trying to frighten me. But I do not bother about going to jail. I will be with you no matter where I stay. I have my party and people.” Advertisement It was not she, but the Awami League men who would go to jail, as the BNP had all information and documents about the misdeeds and corruption of the ruling party men, said Khaleda. Pointing to the ruling party leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, she said, “You should be ready with your passports and visas so that you can flee the country hurriedly. “Otherwise, people from all walks of life will block your way and you will not get the chance to escape.” She directed her party leaders to work together in case of her absence. Khaleda urged people to be united to save the country from “this repressive, murderous and autocratic government”. The BNP chief said the AL leaders would leave the country at the time of a crisis, as they plundered thousands of crores of taka and siphoned those off. Khaleda said the present government has to pay for its misdeeds and misrule. Demanding disbandment of Rapid Action Battalion, the former prime minister said, “We had formed Rab in order to prevent terrorism in the country. But the present government is using the force to serve its political interests.” Top Rab official Col Ziaul Ahsan should be arrested immediately for his "alleged involvement in the seven murders in Narayanganj and the recent killings across the country," she said. “The truth behind the Narayanganj murders could be unearthed if he [Ziaul] is interrogated. The prime minister has links with the incident. I do not understand how he could still hold his position in the elite force. He should be terminated and arrested immediately for the recent killings and forced disappearances across the country.” On the government's claim that electricity generation is now 10,500 megawatt, the BNP chief said, “The information is absolutely false. The truth is that the production capacity at present is only 6,500 megawatt.” The rally was organised to demand a national election under a caretaker government and to protest abductions, killings, repression, the national broadcast policy and the constitutional amendment to impeach Supreme Court judges. Around 200 arches were put up along the road from Ashuganj to the rally venue. This was Khaleda's fourth visit outside the capital after the January 5 national elections boycotted by the BNP-led alliance. Earlier, she had visited Rajbari, Munshiganj and Dinajpur to drum up public support for opposition's fresh anti-government agitation after the Eid-ul-Azha.
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