‘Buses were torched to malign BNP’: Fakhrul

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) today alleged that the incidents of buses being torched in the capital yesterday were an "act of the government's agents."

"I want to say clearly that BNP does not do politics of destruction. From our past experience, agents of the government do such sabotage," Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of the party, said at a press meet at Dhaka Reporters Unity.

He alleged that these incidents were orchestrated to malign BNP.

Fakhrul said what happened on Thursday were heinous acts.

"I harshly condemn it. We do politics of peaceful and systematic movements. These types of incidents take place when there is no democratic space in the country," he added.

He said when right to processions and rallies were denied, miscreants took it as an opportunity for sabotage.