Wife of detained BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has urged the government to take steps for his joining the current session of parliament.
Farhat Quader Chowdhury told journalists at a news conference at the National Press Club on Saturday that her husband, accused of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war of independence, sent a letter to the speaker expressing his interest to join parliament.
'A letter from the BNP has also been sent [to the speaker] … it is his [Salauddin's] constitutional right to take part in the parliament sessions,' she said at the conference organised by Salauddin Quader Chowdhury Mukti Parishad, a body formed to push for release of the BNP leader.
The government did not take steps in this regard, she alleged.
Organisation chief Ruhul Amin Shelly alleged that Salauddin was tortured after his arrest on 'fake charges'.
'The incumbent government filed the case by arranging fake and flimsy incident, which had been settled 39 years ago, in order to malign him politically and socially,' he said.
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