<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that Bangladesh has now become a gas chamber as a result of unplanned urbanization.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Bangladesh is now a valley of death due to a hoax development of the current dummy government,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP leader also accused the government of putting lives in jeopardy through deforestation, silting up of rivers and canals and setting up thermal and coal-run power plants by pursuing unplanned urbanisation.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Bangladesh has now been turned into a gas chamber,” he observed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rizvi came up with the remarks while distributing bottled water and saline among pedestrians in the capital's Mirpur area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of its 7-day programme, Dhaka North City unit BNP arranged the programme to assuage public suffering amidst the ongoing severe heatwave across the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Rizvi said the government is setting up thermal power plants in different areas by ignoring the opinion of environmental experts, causing a serious threat to the biodiversity of the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Tees are no longer bearing fruit in these&nbsp; areas…People belonging to Awami League are filling the ponds, canals, rivers and water bodies.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also said that the ruling party leaders are creating a second home by siphoning off huge money abroad by indulging in plundering.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">”The government of Sheikh Hasina has turned Bangladesh into a den of looting. As a result, they’re not able to import goods from abroad due to dollar crisis. The country has been ruined by corruption and looting,” BNP leader said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Slamming the Prime Minister, he said Sheikh Hasina has snatched democracy and people's all rights. “Because of this, people can now no longer exercise their right to vote. Parliament has now become an entertainment house.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He bemoaned that democracy-loving people have been still sacrificing their lives for establishing the voting rights even after 52 years of independence of the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Later in the day, Rizvi along with BNP leaders and activists distributed bottled water and saline among pedestrians in the city’s Shantinagar area.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>