<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Wednesday that the knee of Awami League (AL) has started shaking due to the US sanctions.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The knee of the Awami League has started shaking because of the sanctions by America. We can’t show faces due to shame,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fakhrul said this while addressing as the chief guest at a youth rally organised by the party to woo youths with slogans ‘young generation will cast votes, fighting for vote’ in Kazir Dewri area of the port city of Chattogram on Wednesday afternoon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He put a question saying, who has been using the Rapid Action Battalion, used to pick up their brothers and kill?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Urging all to be united, the BNP leader said the AL can’t be trusted on the election issue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paintign a picture of a balanced state, he said all basic rights to the people will be ensured once they come to power in the future.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He alleged that peoples’ voting rights along with other rights were snatched away by the ruling party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fakhrul said AL men are misappropriating people’s money in the name of development while general people are being deprived of their basic needs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Expressing sympathy to Islami Andolon Bangladesh leader Mufti Faizul Karim for attacks on him, the BNP leader claimed that the total election system collapsed in the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Secretary General Fakhrul expressed his doubts about a slow poisoning to Chairperson Khaleda Zia and alleged that she has been kept in detention in an unjust way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the country's people have been passing days in pain due to the price hike of the essential commodities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Vice Chairmen Abdullah Al Noman and Barkat Ullah Bulu and Jubo Dal President Sultan Salauddin Tuku, among others spoke among others. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>