Shawdesh desk:

Ruling Awami League joint general secretary and information and broadcasting minister Hasan Mahmud said on Monday that arrests would continue until ending ‘ambush’ by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalsit Party across the country.

He made the remarks while talking to reporters in front of AL central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka.

The minister’s remarks came when the government allegedly launched a crackdown on the main opposition political party ahead of the next general election and the opposition parties were on movement to press home their demand for the resignation of the AL government, dissolving the parliament and holding the next general election under a neutral government.

‘Arrests will continue as long as the ambush attacks on. No one will be allowed to interfere. I urge our intellectuals and the country’s human rights organisations not to create any humour over those arrests,’ said Hasan.

He alleged that the BNP leaders and activists were committing arson attacks and ambush across the country.

He slammed the country’s intellectuals for giving statement to release BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

He posed a question why they were not issuing statements over killing police, attack on the chief justice house and journalists and harassing female leaders of AL.

The BNP has been alleging that the government launched a crackdown on the main opposition political party to suppress their movement and that over 10,000 BNP leaders and activists were arrested in false and fictitious cases across the country in two weeks since October 28.