Addressing India, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, "You think that if you ban onions, the people of Bangladesh will not be able to use onions in their cooking. If you ban garlic, ginger and soybean oil, we will not be able to use them in cooking anymore, you are living a nightmare. You have banned the export of cattle for five-six years, the people of Bangladesh have rightly established cattle farms and goat farms in their villages. In one Eid of sacrifice, 12 million cattle are sacrificed in this country."

He made these remarks while speaking as the chief guest at an event demanding a boycott of Indian products in Gulshan, the capital, on Friday (December 6) at around 11:30 am.

Addressing the neighboring countries, Rizvi further said, "Don't forget that the people of Bangladesh are very hardworking, hardworking, they know how to produce onions, garlic, ginger themselves. You think you are the only country in the world. Are there no other countries in the world; from which we can import onions? From which we can import garlic and oil? Are those countries not there? You think that if you close them, the condition of the people of Bangladesh will be unbearable. The situation has become unbearable for you. None of your shops in New Market are functioning, your markets are about to be closed. The people of Bangladesh go to Kolkata and spend dollars there to shop and go to the hospital for treatment. The hospital will no longer function. By closing it, you think that the people of Bangladesh have become restless. In fact, the people of Bangladesh are happy. If necessary, they will go to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia or other countries for treatment. People do not want to go to countries where jealous traitors like you hate us. Because this nation bought its freedom at the price of blood. The nation that you will intimidate and make to kneel before you is not Bangladesh."

This senior leader of BNP said, "Republic of Bengal has said that Chittagong has been claimed as a part of India, how much more false propaganda is going on. We are saying, if you claim in an independent universal country, I have said before that we will also claim our Nawab's area, that Bengal, Bihar, Orissa. This is our rightful due. We do not want to say these words. We have done many struggles and anti-British struggles together in this subcontinent."

Also present at the time were BNP co-editor Amlendu Das Apu, Swechchhasebak Dal vice-president Jahidul Kabir, Chhatra Dal leader Touhid Awal, Raju Ahmed and others.