BNP on Monday termed justified the demand of demonstrating students and job-seekers for reform of the existing quota system in government service.
Speaking at an emergency press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP sectary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that police attacked peaceful demonstrations without any provocation only to suppress the movement of hundreds of students and job-seekers.
“We strongly condemn and protest the barbaric and unprovoked attack by police on the students and job-seekers who were demonstrating to realise their justified demand,” Fakhrul said.
He also demanded the government immediately release those demonstrators who were detained by police.
Fakhrul also assured that their party, if it returns to power, will revoke the quota except those kept for freedom fighters’ children, women and ethnic minority.
BNP standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud were, among others, present, reports UNB.