DHAKA: The BNP-led 20-party alliance has demanded whereabouts of one of its leaders and secretary general of Bangladesh Kalyan Party MM Aminur Rahman who went missing on August 27.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Kalyan Party chairman Maj Gen (retd) Syed Mohammad Ibrahim Birpratik made the demand at a press conference of the 20-party alliance at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office in the city on Saturday (September 16).  

Secretary general of Jatiya Party (Kazi Jafor) Mostafa Jamal Haider, LDP’s secretary general Redowan Ahmed, NPP chairman Dr Fariduzzaman Farhad and Bangladesh NAP secretary general M Golam Mustafa Bhuiyan also attended the press conference, among others.  

Mirza Fakhrul said that MM Aminur Rahman has been forced disappeared as part of the government’s plan to split BNP-led 20-party alliance. The same attempt was taken to split the alliance earlier but failed, he added.  

Syed Mohammad Ibrahim said, “We suspect them behind the disappearance of MM Aminur Rahman the people suspect them.”

He called upon the government to trace the Kalyan Party leader.  It is the government and its law enforcement agencies’ moral responsibility to trace the missing people.

Aminur Rahman went missing on August 27 after he left Nayapaltan at around 10:00 pm for his home close to Rural Electrification Office at Aminbazar area in Savar.

Mirza Fakhrul also talked about Rohingya issue. He underscored the need for forging a national unity to cope up with the Rohingya crisis. “Rohingya crisis has taken into a horrific turn. We have to forge a national unity to deal with the issue,” he said.

The BNP leader also called upon the government to hold talks with all political parties for paving the path of forging the unity on humanitarian aspect of the Rohingya refugees fled into Bangladesh following persecution in Myanmar.

He also blasted the government for not allowing BNP leaders to distribute relief materials among the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar.

BDST: 2140 HRS, SEP 16, 2017
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