Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Aug-03,
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that a chaotic situation has been created by reopening RMG factories amid the ongoing lockdown as workers’ lives have no value to the government.
"RMG workers went through extreme sufferings
while joining thier jobs. The government has created a messy situation by
allowing the workers to go home and again bringing them back to work. Their
lives seem to have no value,” he said.
Speaking at a virtual discussion, the BNP leader
said the government whimsically allowed the workers to go home amid Covid
transmission before Eid-ul-Azha and thus helped spread the virus across the
country. “They now asked them to come back amid the lockdown. The workes
returned to Dhaka from Mymensingh, Manikganj, Munshiganj and other areas on
foot to join their jobs. This is too much.”
Mannan-Nilufar Memorial Foundation arranged the
programme, marking the first death anniversary of late BNP vice-chairman and
ex-state minister Abdul Mannan.
Fakhrul alleged that the government is least
bothered about the sufferings of people and their lives and livelihoods as it
is not elected by them.
"This is the high time to stand up against this
misrule. We have to stand up against
this monstrous regime that has been running the country without public
mandate,” he said.
The BNP leader said a truly democratic government
must be established to 'restore' people’s rights. "We all have to work
together and move forward to make it happens.”
Fakhrul recalled the contributions of Mannan to the
country and BNP as an honest and responsible politician.
Mannan, who served as the state minister for Civil
Aviation and Tourism from 1991 to 1996, died on August 4 last year at the age
of 78.
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