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Published : 08 Jan 2026, 07:11 PM
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that the killing of the party’s volunteer wing leader Azizur Rahman Muchabbir was aimed at putting the interim government in an awkward position.
He made the remarks in a statement on Thursday afternoon, condemning the killing of the former Dhaka north unit leader of the BNP-backed organisation.
Fakhrul said that following the fall of what he described as the Awami League’s “autocratic regime” through the student–public movement, miscreants had again become active in creating instability and chaos to serve their own interests.
“The brutal and barbaric killing of former Dhaka north Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Azizur Rahman Muchabbir is a cruel manifestation of those conspiracies,” he said.
He alleged that such horrific incidents were being repeated deliberately to embarrass the current interim government.
“There is no alternative to suppressing these miscreants with an iron hand,” the BNP secretary general said.
Fakhrul also urged people from all walks of life, regardless of political affiliation, to remain united to establish democracy, restore voting rights and protect lives and property.
“Otherwise, the allies of the lurking Awami fascists will rear their heads and become desperate to endanger the country’s existence,” he warned.
In the statement, he demanded the immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of those involved in Muchabbir’s killing, prayed for the forgiveness of the deceased’s soul and expressed sympathy for the bereaved family.
Muchabbir, a former general secretary of the Dhaka north Swechchhasebak Dal, had also previously served as a joint secretary of the organisation’s central committee. During the Awami League government, he had been arrested several times and sent to jail.
He was shot shortly after 8pm on Wednesday in a lane beside Ahsanullah Technology Institute near Hotel Super Star on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka. Abu Sufian Bepari Masud, general secretary of the Tejgaon Police Van Workers’ Union, who was with him at the time, was also shot.
Locals took the two men to BRB Hospital, where doctors declared Muchabbir dead. Later, his wife Suraiya Begum filed a case with Tejgaon Police Station against unidentified suspects.
