Dhaka, Oct. 5 -- Condemning a reported plot by a Chhatra League leader to assassinate Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said thugs and hooligans has emerged in society as there has been no opportunity to pursue knowledge and science over the past 15-16 years.

"I read in the newspaper that a Chhatra League leader planned to kill the country's Chief Adviser. If our education system had truly been built on science, technology, and proper organisation, no young person brought up by a student organisation would ever think of such a plot," he said.

Speaking at a programme at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office, Rizvi blamed the Awami League government for destroying the educatio...