BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is resorting to various plots as it does not want the opposition party to participate in the general election.“The government has put the senior BNP leaders behind the bars as it doesn’t want the polls to be held with the participation of BNP,” said opposition chief whip Zainul Abedin Farroque. The BNP leader made the allegation at a civic meeting arranged at the Jatiya Press Club protesting the government’s move to hold a unilateral election.
Farroque said the government has formed the election-time cabinet with its alliance partners in a bid to reestablish one-party rule through lopsided polls. “BNP won’t allow the government to implement its evil design.”
Mentioning that the country’s people want a free fair election under a neutral administration, the BNP leader said people would not accept any stage-managed election. Farroque criticised the government for what it said its growing repressive acts to suppress the opposition’s ongoing movement for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
He called upon the government to sit in talks over polls-time non-party government shunning repression on the opposition. “Still there’s time…hold dialogue and continue the trend of politics of parliamentary politics.” The opposition chief whip threatened that they will wage a very tougher movement to oust the current regime if it does not reach an understanding through talks. – UNB
