Police going overboard on government indulgence, says BNP

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that police are behaving 'like kings' owing to government indulgence.

Fakhrul was reacting to incidents involving police high-handedness with a Bangladesh Bank official and a Dhaka South City Corporation inspector within a week.

Mirza Fakhrul alleged that the government was using police to suppress the opposition.

“No one has any right here to commit excesses, be it a politician, an ordinary citizen, intellectual or toiling people. Only those in power enjoy all rights,” he said.

The BNP leader said the police officer who beat up DSCC Cleaning Inspector Bikash Chandra Das had bragged: ‘Hilsha is the king of fishes while police are the kings of the country.”

Jatrabarhi police Sub-Inspector Arshad Hossain Akash had allegedly beaten up Bikash early morning on Friday when he was going to Mirhazirbagh to supervise cleaning.

Six days earlier, Mohammadpur police Sub-Inspector Masud Shikdar picked up Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi and tried to extort money by threatening to prosecute him as a Yaba addict.

Speaking the discussion at Photo Journalists Association, Fakhrul said people would revolt against this government.
 
He called upon all to forge a national unity to stand up against the government to tide over the ‘present political situation’.
 
The BNP leader urged the government to start a dialogue with opposition parties for holding a snap poll under a non-party caretaker administration.
 
He told the government, “Hold an election in which expectations of the people will be reflected.”
 
Or else there will be a political crisis, he warned.