Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
24 hours for withdrawing her statement and apologise to the nation for questioning the country's illusory sovereignty and interfering in the operations of patriotic armed forces.
General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam made the announcement yesterday while expressing his party's reaction over Khaleda's speech given at a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday.
Also the LGRD minister, Ashraf said the BNP chief had made the comments by not heeding to the apology the daily Inqilab sought for the "false news" it had published on January 16.
Khaleda delivered a similar speech on the law enforcer's crackdown in Satkhira on the people responsible for violence before and after the election saying that the Indian army had carried out the operation together with the Bangladeshi law enforcers.
Issuing a note of warning to the BNP chairperson, the AL leader said: "Withdraw your false statement within 24 hours and apologise to the nation. Otherwise, the government will take necessary steps."
He was speaking at a presser held at the party chief's Dhanmondi office when party leaders Nul-Ul Alam Lenin, Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, BM Mozammel Haque, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury and Hasan Mahmud were present.