<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday said that the number of wealthy people who are like former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has increased in the country.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rizvi said it in a press conference held at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital citing recent media reports on&nbsp; Benazir Ahmed’s alleged corruption and lavish lifestyle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rizvi said these rich people were blessed by Sheikh Hasina for killing and forcefully disappearing BNP’s thousands of leaders and activists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Besides, corruption in the name of mega projects, looting banks is not a fairy tale now, it’s real.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said it is true that there is a close relation between corruption and those who exist at the apex of power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the Awami&nbsp; League regime, they have become affluent who control tender, syndicate with blessings of ruling quarter, he claimed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">On one side, the Awami League and their oligarch are celebrating Eid&nbsp; lavishly, there was no joy of Eid among the&nbsp; country’s poor and limited-income&nbsp; people on the other side, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“How people will buy Eid clothes for their family members where they are struggling to ensure their daily meal,” Rizvi said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The poor people celebrated this year’s Eid with ‍starvation and unprecedented sorrows, he said, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Awami League’s 15 years’ misrule and embezzlement of people’s money have caused a silent famine,” Rizvi claimed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They also deceived people of the country by holding a staged, one-sided and dummy election,” he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rizvi also said Bangladesh which was born after a nine- month war against Pakistani rulers is being crushed under the feet of a tyrant, said the BNP leader.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>