Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the party received "hypocrisy as a gift" for showing generosity to Jamaat-e-Islami.

"BNP allowed Jamaat to engage in politics despite the Awami League's post-independence ban on the party. In return for this generosity, we received hypocrisy," Rizvi told an event in Rajshahi on Wednesday.

Rizvi recalled that during the movement against military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad, opposition parties had protested together.

"At the time, [BNP Chairperson] Khaleda Zia had declared that she wouldn't participate in elections under Ershad, but the hypocritical Jamaat joined the polls with Awami League," he said.

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