Autocrat gone but cohorts still in country: Tarique

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has urged all people to remain alert about multi-faceted conspiracies of the cohorts of the autocrat though the dictator fled the country.

The BNP leader said this while addressing a public rally in Gopalpur of Tangail district as the chief guest virtually from London on Wednesday.

Tangail's Gopalpur unit of BNP organized the rally this afternoon demanding release of former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu from jail.

BNP central Vice-Chairman Advocate Ahmed Azam Khan addressed the rally as the special guest while Publicity Secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku spoke as main speaker with BNP's Gopalpur Upazila unit President Khandaker Jahangir Alam in the chair.

Tarique Rahman said BNP wants to introduce politics of production and development in the country in future.