Hundreds of protesters at a rally yesterday demanded of the government to try BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia and her party leader Goyeswar Chandra Roy on the charge of sedition, reports BSS.
“Both of them made attacks on the foundation of the country by creating controversy about the number of people embraced martyrdom in the 1971 War of Liberation. If it is not possible to make them facing trial under the existing law, the government should reform it,” said Mohammad A Arafat, chairperson of Suchinta Foundation.
Arafat, also son of a Freedom Fighter, said “Khaleda and Goyeswar have no rights to live and do politics in Bangladesh.” He made this observation while talking to newsmen beside Banani playground as pro-liberation people and children of Freedom Fighters’ gathered there as part of their programme to lay siege to BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence.
As per the programme, the protesters gathered at Gulshan-2 circle, but law enforcers pushed them to the play ground for security reason. Muktijoddha Sontan Command president Mehedi Hasan, Barrister Sheikh Nayeem, martyred intellectual Dr Alim Chowdhury’s daughter Nuzhat Chowdhury, Sector Commander Khaled Mosharraf’s daughter Mahjabeen Mosharraf, MP, were present, among others.