Kolkata newspaper ‘Ei Samay’ interview on Fakhrul ‘blatantly false,’ says BNP

The BNP has denounced an interview published in Kolkata’s Bengali daily Ei Samay under the headline “Fakhrul wants Awami League and Jatiya Party in elections,” as “blatantly false and fabricated”. In a statement issued by Taiful Islam Tipu, the party’s joint office secretary, on Wednesday, the BNP said the report was entirely baseless. “Recently, a baseless news item has been published that BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir gave an interview to Kolkata's Bengali daily newspaper Ei Samay,” the statement read. “An interview with him was published in that newspaper yesterday under the headline ‘Fakhrul wants Awami League and Jatiya Party in elections’ which is blatantly false and fabricated.” The party added that Fakhrul had not given an interview...