The right wing political party -- Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its key ally ultra-radical Bangladesh Jamaat -e-Islami have started Taliban style secret activities to turn Bangladesh into a failed state.
They are resorting to deadly violence like Islamic States (IS) as part of their deep rooted conspiracy to destablize the country and oust the current pro-liberation government.
Leading political observers had warned that BNP-Jamaat cliques will launch killings by hurling petrol bombs targeting law enforcers, progressive political leaders and journalists.
The political analysts say that Jamaat and BNP cadres may attempt to use petrol bombs on crowded passenger buses, trains and launch more targets to get more media attention.
However, intelligence agencies gathered information that BNP-Jamaat cadres may launch more violent attacks after the Election Commission announces the poll schedule this month for the upcoming general election.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is declaring their programmes through online platforms just like the Taliban or the IS do.
He said that BNP-Jamaat politics mean violence and nothing more. They are always engaged in burning down public transports and killing innocent people in the name of blockade.
They are even attacking ambulances and hospitals like the Israeli forces doing in Gaza, he further said.
BNP attacked hospitals and burnt down ambulances on October 28. They also attacked a transport of students like the Israeli forces did on the Palestinians, the senior minister said.
BNP-Jamaat terrors torched at least four buses in the capital on Sunday. The terrors torched a bus of Shikar Paribahan in Mirpur's Pallabi area at around 7:00pm. In Banglamotor area, they torched a bus at around 6:28pm.
BNP-Jamat cadres also torched a double-decker bus at 3:45pm in front of the Govt Bangla College in Mirpur area. They also torched another passenger bus leaving two innocent people injured. BNP-Jamaat miscreants set a bus on fire at Meradia area of Dhaka’s Khilgaon.
These miscreants also set a truck on fire at Alutila in Khagrachhari district town on Sunday morning. BNP-Jamaat terrors set fire to a bus in at Shiddhirganj in Narayanganj.
They also set a passenger bus fire on in the Katghar area of Patenga police station in the early hours of the blockade.
According to the police and fire service officials, at least 10 buses and a private car were set ablaze in the streets of Dhaka and elsewhere in the country during the night before the starting of the second round of the two-day blockade.
BNP-Jamaat goons also set an AL office on fire on Sunday morning.
Arson attacks sponsored by BNP-Jamaat began when a Mirpur Link Paribahan bus was torched in front of Gawsia Market in the capital at 7:30 pm on Saturday on Mirpur to Azimpur road in the capital.
A mere five minutes later, BNP-Jamaat activists torched another bus of Green University on New Elephant Road in the city. The bus was on its way from Kataban to Mirpur and was severely damaged in the fire.
Shortly after, at 7:55 pm, BNP-Jamaat caders torched a Sayedabad bound bus of Raida Paribahan bus at Postgola.
By 10 pm, the same terror groups torched a bus operated by Manzil Express in front of Gulistan Patal Market.
Around 12:15 am, blockaders torched a bus of Anabil Transport at Signboard in Narayanganj.
Simultaneously, in Bhola's Char Fasson New Bus Stand, a Jamuna Express bus was set ablaze by BNP-Jamaat men.
Around 1:30 am, the BNP-Jamaat activists torched a private car in front of the Narsingdi Police Lines.
The opposition backed terrors set a bus on fire near Saddam Market at Matuail at around 4am on Sunday and a Turag Paribahan bus at Jatrabari bus stand.
Daily reports of vehicles being set on fire have marked the ongoing strike and blockade programmes, leading to loss of lives.
Between 2013 and 2015, in the run-up to the parliamentary polls, countless people, including law-enforcement personnel were at the receiving end of the mindless petrol bomb and arson attacks unleashed to oust the government. A total of 15 policemen were killed in only 2013 by BNP-Jamaat terrors.
In 419 major incidents of violence throughout the year then in 2013, spearheaded by Jamaat-Shibir, 492 people were killed while 2,200 others were injured in the incidents.
On the day of the election, BNP-Jamaat cliques killed 26 people, including a presiding officer and torched 582 schools across the country.
From 4 January 2015 onward, BNP-Jamaat unleashed another reign of terror in the guise of marking one year of the 5 January 2014 election. They killed 231 innocent people, mostly through arson and petrol bomb attacks and injured mostly through burning 1,180 others.
Arson attacks were conducted to burn 2,903 cars, 18 train carriages and 8 passenger water vessels. Through targeted attacks, 70 government offices were vandalized and destroyed and 6 land offices were burnt.
According to police reports, around 160 incidents of attacks and atrocities on Hindu minorities took place in 21 districts after the January 5, 2013 parliamentary polls by BNP-Jamaat.