Dhaka, Sept. 24 -- The BNP has protested an interview of its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir published in the Indian daily Ei Samay, calling it distorted and misleading.

In a statement issued Tuesday on its official Facebook page, the party said: "BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has made it clear that the comments attributed to him in the interview published by India's daily newspaper Ei Samay were never made by him."

However, the statement did not specify which remarks had been misrepresented.

Several Bangladeshi media outlets carried reports based on the Ei Samay interview under varying headlines.

But, according to the BNP statement signed by Sayrul Kabir Khan of the party's Media Cell, such reports a...