Staff Reporter :
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday announced that the party will boycott the talk shows of Somoy TV and Ekattor TV temporarily.
The BNP Media Cell has taken the decision after consultations with senior leaders of the party with high command’s approval.
A letter in this regard has been sent to the party leaders who recently participated in TV talk shows. The letter, signed by the party’s Media Cell Member Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, has already been sent to concerned the leaders.
“Ekattor TV and Somoy TV have exposed their biased approach continuously to make their owners and the ruling party happy,” Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie said.
“They always decorate talk shows with a plan of defaming the BNP and its leadership.
Therefore, the decision will remain in place from next Saturday to until further notice,” he said.
“Both the TVs are producing and airing reports against the BNP with a hostile attitude especially targeting our leader Tarique Rahman to appease the ruling party,” the letter read.
“Sometimes the entire stage, including the host or presenter of the talk show, is deliberately designed to humiliate our team and leadership. In such a situation, we have decided to temporarily boycott the talk shows of that two TVs,” the letter also added.
