<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said the future of the current Awami League government appears dim as the country's crisis has deepened further after the 12th parliamentary election.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking at a press conference, he also accused the government of using the judiciary as a tool to implement its depoliticization agenda by arbitrarily convicting and imprisoning opposition leaders and activists in a bid to consolidate power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I would like to say that they (govt) have a false belief that it has overcome the crisis. But I say the crisis has only deepened further in the aftermath of the last (national) election. If you still don’t realise this reality and make efforts to address the crisis, then your future is rather bleak."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The press conference was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office to inform journalists about the decisions made during a virtual meeting of the party's Standing Committee on May 8.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Fakhrul said their standing committee meeting strongly denounced the process of unilaterally trying and sentencing leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He claimed that over 2,000 opposition leaders and activists have been jailed in completely false, fabricated, and fictitious cases as part of the government’s efforts to eliminate the opposition political parties and send the country's politics into exile, reports UNB.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The court is the last resort of people, but they are not finding remedies there.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP leader alleged that a vested group has been empowered in the country by the government, providing them with opportunities to amass wealth through various forms of corruption and irregularities. “They have orchestrated a scheme of plunder to keep this regime in power using it.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also said the looters belonging to the ruling party are siphoning off huge money abroad, destroying the economy of Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>