Salahuddin says mass lawsuits, ‘mob violence’ harmed interim government most

BNP’s senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said the interim government has suffered the most damage from widespread cases and “mob violence”.

He said on Saturday at a roundtable discussion organised by the English daily The Daily Star at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.

“After the 5th of August, the cases filed in 2024 and the mob crises that followed -- these two things have damaged this government the most. They have damaged the people,” the BNP Standing Committee member said.

He also criticised the practice of naming several thousand people in a single case, many of whom, he argued, had no link to the alleged incident.

“But who records these cases? Police,” Salahuddin said. “Earlier, they couldn’t even take a case from us. For example, when I was subjected to enforced disappearance, my wife couldn’t even file a general diary.”