Terming premeditated and politically motivated a Chattogram court’s verdict sentencing its Vice-chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury to three years’ imprisonment, BNP yesterday said the criticism of the government has now considered as a crime. “Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury was awarded three years’ jail only for political reasons in a false and fabricated case. This verdict is pre-planned and politically motivated one,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.   Speaking at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, he further said, “The verdict has exposed the ‘neo Baksal’ rule in the country. The criticism of the government is now regarded as a crime as the spirit of Nazi misrule has now descended on the Awami League government.”