“The BNP is no longer a political party. They are a terrorist organisation. Even, the Canadian courts have ruled as such. They should all be thrown in jail,” Joy wrote in a Facebook post shared on his verified page on Wednesday night.
He came up with such a reaction in the wake of BNP men’s clash with police at Nayapaltan on Wednesday.
Joy said the election process has barely started and the BNP already resorted to violence “just as they burned civilians alive in their arson attacks during 2013 and 2015.”
At least 70 people, including 23 policemen, were injured, in a clash between BNP activists and law enforcers in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Wednesday.
Police lobbed teargas shells, rubber bullets and charged batons while two police cars were torched during the clash that began around 12:50pm and lasted for around 25 minutes.