BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi recently (5 December) called for a “boycott of Indian products” in affirm against the desecration of the national flag of Bangladesh and the assault on the Assistant Excessive Fee in Agartala.
“Those that hurry down our country’s flag… we can boycott their [Indi’s] products,” he said whereas addressing a operate in entrance of the Nationwide Press Membership.
The tournament used to be held under the banner of “Purchase native products and be blessed” to encourage the boycott of Indian products and the employ of Bangladeshi products.
Rizvi said Bangladeshi moms and sisters ought to tranquil no longer aquire Indian sarees, soaps, toothpaste or something else from India.
Noting that Bangladesh is self-enough in onion production as neatly, he said, “So we is perchance no longer dependent on them [India]… we can boycott Indian products.”
Indian saree space on fire
On the operate, Rizvi threw an Indian saree of his wife, which used to be space on fire amid anti-Indian slogans.
“We can wear the sarees of Tangail, the silk sarees of Rajshahi, or the khaddar of Cumilla,” he said.
The BNP chief, nonetheless, asked the contributors no longer to desecrate the Indian flag and belittle its dignity, although they space the flag of Bangladesh on fire and tried to humiliate Bangladesh.
“We is no longer going to insult the Indian flag… we is no longer going to belittle the honour of yet one more self sustaining country… we is no longer going to disrespect the independence and sovereignty of any nation,” he said.
Bringing up that Indians are accomplishing propaganda against Bangladesh, Rizvi said the contributors of Bangladesh can’t bow down their heads. “If wanted, we will use one meal a day… even then we obtained’t bow down our heads,” he added.
Relating to the most modern remarks of Indian journalists and physicians in the case of the Bangladeshi patients who shuffle to India on medical visas, the BNP senior joint secretary overall said Bangladeshi other folks set up no longer derive free medical therapy in India.
“The folk from Bangladesh shuffle there spending dollars. Now the Unique Market in Kolkata is closed, the outlets are closed, no extra consumers are there,” he said, alongside with that the Bangladeshis frequently shuffle there to aquire products and services with dollars.
India’s Hasina affection
Rizvi said, “They [India] cherish merciless Hasina, no longer the contributors of Bangladesh. They lift out no longer desire Bangladesh to continue to exist.”
He said recently India is pushing diverse sorts of instigation among the contributors of Bangladesh and interior Bangladesh. However the contributors of Bangladesh is no longer going to step in any provocation.
The cohesion of political parties right here in Bangladesh is so stable that no one would be in a neighborhood to interrupt it, he added.
BNP joint secretary overall Abdul Salam Azad and volunteer affairs secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu and health affairs secretary Rafiqul Islam, among others, spoke on the occasion.
