Dhaka, Apr 19 (bdnews24.com)-- Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has refuted the allegation that the government agencies picked up opposition leader M Ilias Ali and said it was the BNP that had introduced the 'politics of forced disappearance'.
"We don't practice such politics," Hasina told a discussion marking the 40th founding anniversary of Krishak League, the Awami League's peasants wing, at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Thursday.
"They always try to pass the blame on us after killing their own party men," she added.
The car of BNP organising secretary Ilias was found abandoned in front of the South Point School and College near Amtali crossing in Mohakhali in the small hours of Wednesday.
His wife Tahsina Rushdir Luna informed police that her husband had gone out of their Banani house with two other people around 9:30pm on Tuesday and since then she could not reach him. She filed a general diary at the Banani Police Station.
The BNP has blamed the government for the disappearance of Ilias and called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike for Sunday in protest against the incident.
It is also enforcing a shutdown in Sylhet division on Thursday.
When the news of his going missing spread, supporters of Ilias, a former lawmaker from Sylhet-2 constituency, clashed with police several times during the blockade on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet and Moulvibazar on Wednesday.
Later, the government postponed Thursday's Higher Secondary Certificate examinations of Sylhet education board and vocational board across the country in view of the hartal call by the opposition in the district.
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