Dhaka, April 27 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that Bangladesh has now become a gas chamber as a result of unplanned urbanization.

"Bangladesh is now a valley of death due to a hoax development of the current dummy government," he said.

The BNP leader also accused the government of putting lives in jeopardy through deforestation, silting up of rivers and canals and setting up thermal and coal-run power plants by pursuing unplanned urbanisation.

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"Bangladesh has now been turned into a gas chamber," he observed.

Rizvi came up with the remarks while distributing bottled water and saline among pedestrians in the capital's Mirpur are...