Awami League’s effort to enforce a one-party rule in Bangladesh should
be resisted through a movement, BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain
has said.
Speaking at a discussion on Saturday he said, “Awami League held the
voter-less election, like the way a monkey greeds over a pie. There
was no trace of the Opposition in it.”
The discussion, organised to mark BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s birthday,
was attended by top leaders of the party who had gone into hiding to
avoid arrest before the election.
“They have killed democracy and swallowed the whole country into a
one-party rule.”
“We have to start a campaign to rescue democracy from the clutches of
Bakshal,” he said.
Awami League swept back to power with a three-fourth majority in the
Jan 5 parliament polls, in which more than half the seats returned
winners without a contest.
About the party’s long standing demand for polls under neutral
government Mosharraf said, “Some people are saying that our movement
was wrong.”
“We would say that 95 percent of Bangladesh responded to Khaleda Zia’s
call to make our movement a success. They did not go to vote on Jan
5.”
“Not a single person who took oath in Parliament can say what
percentage of vote they received. There was no election on Jan 5; just
distribution of seats.”
“The government held a one-sided poll because they fear BNP and the
family of its founder, Ziaur Rahman.”
BNP leaders Abdul Moyeen Khan, Osman Faruk and Zainul Abdin Farroque
also spoke during the discussion.-bdnews24.com
