Persecuting minorities by BNP-Jamaat in 2001-06: BNP-backed CBA leader illegally occupied the cremation site to build luxurious leisure home

The period 2001-06 was a terrible time for the Hindu community in Bangladesh. From murder, rape, and land grabbing, they had to endure all sorts of torture. BNP leaders occupied not only the land of the houses but also the cremation ground of the Hindu community.

On February 17, 2007, the Prothom Alo reported that Feroz Miah, President of Bangladesh Telecommunication Workers' Union, built a luxurious three-storey house at a cost of Tk three crores in Mazhigacha village of Monionda Union in Akhaura Upazila of Brahammanbaria. The report confirmed that he was involved in BNP politics.

Feroze Mia's village house was in Pathariatek village of the same union. He had two mud houses with tin roofs in his ancestral home in this village on the Indian border. But grabbing the burial site of the Hindu people, Feroz Mia built a luxurious house called Darbar Bari to spend a few hours a week. The house was built on 10 acres of land surrounded by ponds in the east and west and bill in the south.

Feroz Mia grabbed 63 decimals of the cremation site on government land. Feroz Mia's childhood friend and a drug dealer spoke told reporters on condition of anonymity that Feroz Mia who studied up to primary school got a job on a temporary basis as a fourth-class employee with the help of a locally influential family before the independence. He got involved in the trade union politics of BTTB In 1989. He became a supporter of the Jatiya Party and later shifted to BNP during Ershad's regime. After the BNP-led coalition government came to power in 2001, he was promoted to Deputy Assistant Engineer. Abusing the power of CBA leadership, he earned a lot of money from various commissions, appointments and transfer orders. Feroz Mia’s close aide told the journalist that he possessed two houses and a lot of land in Dhaka city. He began buying land in his villages as his lot improved after joining politics.