BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam speaks at a discussion at the National Press Club in the capital on Monday. Photo: Focus Bangla
Holding Finance Minister AMA Muhith responsible for all the financial grafts, including the Hall-Mark one, under this regime, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam
Alamgir on Monday said the minister will have no way to escape.
“He (Muhith) said he has been trying to quit for the last nine months. We would like to tell him… where will you flee? There’re mountains in the North, the Bay of Bengal in the South and 16 crores people in between the two. You won’t find any escape route and will have to be accountable for looting public money,” he told a discussion.
Student leaders of the 90s organised the discussion at the National Press Club, marking the 4th jail release day of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman.
Fakhrul apparently made the remarks in response to his criticism by Muhith.
Criticising the BNP leader for frequently demanding his resignation, the finance minister on Sunday said, “He (Fakhrul) always starts with that demand. He (Fakhrul) often makes false speeches….his style is how to present false speeches in a better way.”
Muhith also said he had wanted to quit nine months ago due to his health condition. “But, we can’t act according to our wish always.”
Reacting to the remarks, Fakhrul said the minister will have to take responsibility and answer to all questions for plundering thousands of crores of taka through the stockmarket, Destiny, quick rental power plants and Hallmark, and also for Padma bridge project graft.
Fakhrul expressed deep concern over a news item carried by a Canada based-online newspaper about a conspiracy to kill opposition chief Khaleda Zia. “There’s no scope to consider it lightly as a small matter.”
A vested quarter is hatching such a plot following The Times of India’s report that BNP may return to power as the popularity of Hasina’s government has been on the wane sharply, he said.
The BNP leader also alleged that those who had killed BNP founder and late president Ziaur Rahman are now trying to keep Tarique Rahman away from politics by implicating him in ‘false’ cases one after another.
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