BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has renewed his party’s call upon the government to step-down from power immediately for ensuring an inclusive and acceptable general poll under a non-partisan interim administration.“If the government does not step aside from power paving the path of an inclusive and acceptable poll, the pro-democratic people will go for an intensive movement immediately putting their lives at stake,” he warned.
Alamgir made the plea in a written statement sent at different media outlets on Wednesday afternoon.
The government has indulged in acts of politics of confrontation by letting loose joint forces on the streets to daunt the ongoing antigovernment movement. It should backtrack on the path of compromise, understanding and peace without wasting time, he added.
The government has plunged into a massive corruption and misdeeds during its last five-year administration. Now it is trying to hide out the corruption records using the state machineries, he blamed.
Several ministers and leaders of the ruling Awami League are telling that dialogue was on with the opposition to ensure their participation in the 11th parliamentary poll instead of the 10th one, he said.
“Such type of comment is politically motivated and baseless as we had three times meeting with the four-member delegate of the government over the 10th parliamentary poll and the poll-time administration,” he said.
Now, the government is staging a drama creating smokescreen in the name of the 11th parliamentary poll. This is nothing but an outcome of the government’s politics of bankruptcy, he opined.
Alamgir has criticised the government for its declaration that a total of 154 MP aspirants as elected unopposed in the 10th parliamentary poll which is scheduled for January 5.
Terming the step as suicidal for Awami League, Alamgir said the countrymen have already rejected the stage managed election and waged a tough movement against the government.
In a bid to thwart the antigovernment movement, the government has let loose joint forces on the streets who are engaged in harassing the opposition party men launching raid their houses across the country, he blamed.
The government is progressing in accordance with its blue print design throwing the people into a deep crisis, he alleged.
Postponement of the poll schedule in the interest of an inclusive and acceptable poll is needed to bring back the country’s political stability, he stressed the need.
Drawing the government’s attention to the next course of dialogue over the poll-time administration, Alamgir said three-times meeting with the meditation of the UN envoy took place.
Since that, the government is not showing any eagerness to sit across the table to overcome the prevailing political crisis centring the poll-time administration, he added.
Besides, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan has blamed the government for turning the country into a police state saying it got craggy to cling on to power through illegal means.
In 1972 to 75, Awami League wanted to hang on top power by launching repressive measures on the people. The party wants to do the same using state machineries including the Election Commission, he alleged.
The people from local and international communities have already got fed up with the government for its rigid stance on holding of the next general election under a party management, he said.
Khan was addressing a press conference held at the party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in the capital on the second day of the fourth spell of countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade programme on Wednesday.
He said representatives of different diplomatic missions in Bangladesh did not place respect to the National Mausoleum on the eve of the country’s victory day in protest of the government move to hold a lopsided national poll under its own management. – Staff Reporter
