Dangerous forces threaten democracy, religious freedom, cultural diversity: Rizvi

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has issued a stark warning: “dangerous forces” are rising in Bangladesh, forces he claims are deliberately undermining democracy, religious freedom, and cultural diversity in a bid to impose ideological uniformity and erase political dissent. Speaking at a discussion and prayer meeting organised by the BNP at the Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) in the capital on Sunday, Rizvi painted a grim picture of creeping authoritarianism masked as administrative reform. “The rise of the forces we are seeing is dangerous for the country’s democracy, dangerous for the practice of democracy, and dangerous for the religious consciousness of the people,” he declared. Rizvi argued that Bangladesh’s cultural fabric where citizens pray five times...