The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday doubted if the Kuki-Chin National Front issue was a drama of the government.

‘The government once staged an IS [Islamic State] drama to intimidate people and now only the government can say whether it is staging a new drama over the KNF issue,’ said BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan.

He made the statement while talking to journalists after a meeting with BNP religious affairs secretary Rafiqul Islam Jamal, who was recently released from jail.

He said that the government turned into authoritarian grabbing all powers.

‘The government is now even searching the BNP inside the KNF with a binocular microscope,’ he said.

The BNP believes in peaceful systematic politics, he said, adding, ‘We want the people of the country to live with their own rights.’

The BNP is agitating for the restoration of the people’s democratic rights and the rights to vote and freedom of speech, said the party leader.

In the past week KNF members reportedly robbed three branches of two state-run banks and carried out an attack on a police establishment in Bandarban and looted cash and arms.