BNP Secretary General and LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the people of Bangladesh will never bring Jamaat-e-Islami back to power. Speaking at a grand reception organized by the Thakurgaon district BNP at the abandoned airport grounds in Shibganj on Wednesday afternoon, he accused Jamaat-e-Islami of opposing the 1971 Liberation War, killing freedom fighters, and committing atrocities against women. He added that politics based on falsehoods and religion would not succeed in the country.

During the event, Mirza Fakhrul, accompanied by Aviation Minister Afroza Khanam Rita and State Minister M. Rashiduzzaman Millat, inspected the abandoned airport. The crowd welcomed the ministers with traditional dances and flower showers. In his speech, Fakhrul announced that the previously closed airports in Bogura and Thakurgaon had been included in the Planning Division’s green list for reopening.

He stated that feasibility studies and renovation work would begin soon, and if all goes well, flights could resume at the Thakurgaon airport within two years.