Staff Correspondent:

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday said it is now the responsibility of the interim government to decide how it will handle Awami League as the entire state machinery is in their hands.

“AL activists have the money to buy petrol to burn houses, the funds to acquire arms to kill people. The government should clarify to people what laws will be enacted to stop this. The administration is under your control,” he said, pointing at the interim government.”

Rizvi was talking to reporters after visiting the burnt home of artist Manabendra Ghosh in Sadar upazila of Manikganj.

“You’ve received support from all pro-democracy forces. But constitutionally and legally there is no basis for an interim government. Those who fought for democracy have backed you and you are now running the country with that support,” he said.

Rizvi alleged that Awami League loyalists were still active in various places lying in wait.

“Many collaborators, loyalists have fled to a neighbouring country and other countries. But those spreading anarchy are protecting them? The administration must know it. If the interim government cannot identify those who have looted banks, smuggled money and protected Sheikh Hasina for the past 15 years people will consider it a failed government,” he warned.

Manikganj BNP convener and former district president Afroza Khanam Rita, Convening Committee members Advocate Azad Khan and Golam Abedin Kaisar, former Organising Secretary Rafiquddin Bhuiyan Habu, were, among others, present during the visit.