Dhaka, Apr 30 The opposition BNP on Monday claimed the cases filed against the top-level leaders of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance are politically motivated.
"The government has filed the cases out of ill-motive just to divert attention from Ilias Ali's abduction," party's standing committee member Moudud Ahmed told a press briefing at BNP chief Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office reacting to the filing of cases.
Police on Sunday night filed cases against several leaders of the opposition alliance including BNP's acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and A S M Hannan Shah over the bomb blasts at the Secretariat, and vandalism and torching of vehicles in front of the Prime Minister's Office during Sunday's nationwide general strike.
Demanding withdrawal of the cases, Moudud threatened to intensify agitation on the streets.
He said, "Top-level leaders of a major political party of the country cannot be linked to incidents like arson of vehicles and bomb blasts, and they were not related."
The opposition alliance enforced two-day countrywide daylong shutdown on Sunday and Monday. It observed general strike for three consecutive days last week demanding 'return' of M Ilias Ali, one of the party's organising secretaries and chief of its Sylhet chapter.
The former law minister also asked the accused BNP leaders to go to the Supreme Court to secure anticipatory bail. "False cases won't be able to thwart the movement. We are going to the Supreme Court after this press meet."
Former Supreme Court Bar Council president Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, Khaleda Zia's press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan and her special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas were also present at the briefing.
He claimed, "Ilias and his driver were abducted to divert people's attention from the cash scandal of Suranjit Sengupta. And now, these two cases have been filed to thwart the movement for Ilias' return."
He also said these cases were another example of the government's act of repression over the opposition.
Asked about the acting secretary-general Fakhrul's whereabouts, Moudud said, "We know that he could not reach the party's Naya Paltan office as police have cordoned it off."
Fakhrul would always be present at the party headquarters during all previous shutdowns. But he was conspicuously absent on Monday. Police did not find him even at his Uttara residence during a raid in the early hours on Monday.
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