Curfew is not a solution to control corona: Fakhrul

BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that curfew is not a solution to control coronavirus.

He made the remarks at a virtual press conference on Sunday (July 11th) at noon to announce the decision of the party's national standing committee meeting.

When asked about the National Advisory Committee's curfew, Mirza Fakhrul said, "I think the curfew is not a solution." Even in this lockdown, if you can't properly manage the money and food of the common people, then that unplanned lockdown will not be able to bring the right solution.

He further said that the successive lockdowns that we have had, the government holidays, the lockdowns, the severe lockdowns, the way in which social distance, the physical distance that was needed, could not be created. What is seen in the lockdown? People are being harassed, suffering, many are suffering from lack of food.

The goal of the lockdown is to keep people away from people, the BNP secretary general said, adding that to create distance, the infection should be prevented. That is why action has to be taken. Where is that awareness? If only the poor people were put in jail with empty threats. I saw in the newspaper that 4,500 people have been imprisoned. Who are these? They are all ordinary poor people. They eat day in and day out, maybe they drive rickshaws, they drive wheelbarrows, maybe they work in a restaurant, they catch them whenever they go out. It is learned that the father died due to lack of oxygen after he was arrested for fetching an oxygen cylinder for his father. This unplanned arrangement is the result of what happened today.

Fakhrul claimed that people are not getting any kind of cooperation from day to day. "In the informal sector, they are just working with small capital," he said. Twice as a result of the lockdown, these small people have lost their capital, they have become destitute, they have sat on the road.

"I know the news in Britain, I know the news in the United States, the people who run small restaurants, the informal sector that they are in, but they're all already motivated," he said. In other words, as soon as the month is over, they get incentives, so those who work there get paid, those who own them also get a good amount of money.

Condemning the circular issued by the Civil Surgeon of Dhaka for not giving any information about Corona to the journalists in all the hospitals in the district, the BNP general secretary said such circulars prove that the government is hiding the real information and wants to do so. The number of infections and deaths is much higher than the number published by the government. Fakhrul also said that the attempt to conceal such information was against the independent media and democracy.

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