, Jan. 22 -- BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday accused a political party of trying to mislead people, especially women, by selling 'tickets-to-heaven' in exchange for votes.

"There is a political party whose role we saw 50 years ago. They are now going to the homes of innocent mothers and sisters and selling 'tickets to Jannah'. This is not hypocrisy alone as it is outright shirk," he said in an oblique reference to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.

He made the remarks while addressing his party's second election rally at Ainpur playground in Sherpur area of Moulvibazar district on Thursday afternoon.

The BNP chairman recalled that the Jamaat leaders killed many people in 1971 during the country's Liberation War. "Now they are misleadi...