Desk Report:
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that freedom of the media is essential in a democratic state. But for the past 16-17 years, fascist rule has been established in the country and voices of dissent have been suppressed. Those media outlets that have brokered fascism and justified disappearances and murders have no right to survive.
He said these things as the chief guest at the multimedia inauguration ceremony of Dainik Barta at the National Press Club in the capital today, Saturday.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, “A responsible newspaper is very important at a time of division between society and the state. Even if the voice of the media is weak, there needs to be a space to tell the truth. The Awami League government has controlled the media, hidden every disappearance and murder and suppressed people of dissent by calling them ‘militants’.
‘Sheikh Hasina suggested bombing from helicopters to suppress the movement. Even his security advisor offered to kill the protesters.’
The BNP leader said that the media, which was a proxy for dictatorship in fascist Italy or Nazi Germany, could not survive after World War II. Therefore, there is no need for a media that defends anti-democratic forces in Bangladesh.
Regarding the DUCSU elections, Rizvi said that the suspicion that the DUCSU election ballot papers were printed in Nilkhet is not unfounded. However, the Chief Returning Officer is speaking in the language of the Awami League. This is disrespectful to the university.
