The BNP has asked its supporters to prepare for movdement including rail and road blockade to force the ruling Awami League to call the general elections under a non-party caretaker government.
BNP’s spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked the ruling party to table a Bill in Parliament to restore the provision of the neutral polls-time administration.
“The government will be mistaken if it considers the BNP’s magnanimity and tolerance as weakness,” he told a rally of the party’s youth front, Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Thursday.
“We will have to blockade the roads and railways if our demand [for a caretaker government] is not met,” he warned party activists.
The government has made known that the parliamentary election will be held under their supervision as per the 15th constitutional amendment of the Constitution.
The BNP and its allies have been claiming such election will not be free and fair and threatened to boycott the polls without a non-party government overseeing.
Fakhrul expressed indignation at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s statement that the next polls would be held under her government.
“We are left with no option now,” he said at the rally organised to mark the sixth anniversary of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman’s release from prison.
“We hoped the government would take initiatives to hold talks [with the opposition] to find a solution to the current crisis but they are not doing so,” Fakhrul said.
The BNP spokesperson said the government’s indifference to the caretaker demand would force the opposition to wage demonstrations.
He said Hasina had proposed a polls-time interim government which would include members from the opposition.
The BNP leader said Hasina was scared at defeat of her party-backed candidates in the recent polls to five city corporations.
