Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Tuesday that the Awami League government was misguiding the people in the name of the development of the country.

While speaking at a press conference at the party chairperson’s office in Gulshan, Fakhrul said that the government had always claimed the credit of massive development of the country and maintained that the country had become a role model of development in the world.

A recent UNDP report has revealed that all that claims are baseless, because the report successfully ranked the nation in terms of development activities in Asia, he said.

According to newspaper reports on Tuesday, Bangladesh possesses fifth position in South Asia and it falls behind Bhutan, Fakhrul said.   

‘From this, we can understand that the government is trying to misguide the people telling stories of development,’ he said.

The government is doing this only to hold onto the power, Fakhrul added.

Fakhrul said that the government had destroyed the spirit of independence war in all sectors of the country.

They had destroyed the freedom of the judiciary establishing partisan influences and turned the economy as economy of looters, Fakhrul said.

BNP will observe the golden jubilee of independence for restoration of spirits of the war of independence of 1971, Fakhrul said.

‘It hurts us when we see prominent freedom fighter Khaleda Zia in jail in a “false” case and when we see attempts to tarnish the image of valiant freedom fighter Ziaur Rahman,’ Fakhrul said.

Golden Jubilee Observation Committee held the press conference where convener of the committee Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain announced 25 committees of the party.

Among them 15 are subjectwise committees and 10 divisional committees.

Member secretary of the observation committee, Abdus Salam, was also present.