BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan has said there is no fruitful progress in the talks so far held with the government and warned that the movement for free and fair election would continue until any visible progress developed to end the prevailing political impasse.“We don’t see any mentionable progress in the talks. We will continue the movement until resolution of the ongoing political crisis over the holding of election under a non-party administration is visible,” Khan said sounding a note of caution.
Responding to a query, Khan made the observation while addressing a press conference at the party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office on the fifth-day of the countrywide 141-hour blockade programme on Wednesday.
We should have overcome the prevailing crisis through dialogue but failed to do so. In this context, the UN envoy Taranco has been sent to Bangladesh to mediate talks, he said.
“Holding of talks between the country’s two major political parties Awami League and BNP have become possible at the mediation of Taranco. It would be disgraceful, if the process is stopped after his (Taranco) going out of the country,” Khan told a questioner.
Expressing grave concern over what he termed as the government sponsored acts of sabotage like setting passenger vehicles on fire and vandalism, Khan said the country has been passing through a crucial juncture as ‘the government has declared war against the people’, he said.
Judiciary, administration and legislature have been held hostage by one person and the country has also been turned into a big prison where there is not even minimum security of the people’s lives and property, he said.
A very limited number of MP aspirants submitted nomination papers since 1973 to contest the upcoming 10th parliamentary election, Khan said and asked the Election Commission (EC) to postpone the polls schedule.
If the EC does not stay aside from its attempt to hold a lopsided national poll, it would be put in the dock, Khan warned.
The BNP leader said Awami League is determined to the hold a unilateral poll under its own management though the opposition has been waging movement for election under a non-party caretaker government, he said.
“Time remaining there is still adequate. Please shun the suicidal path of unilateral national polls and take effective measures to suspend the poll schedule in the greater interest of the nation,” he said pointing finger at the government.
Khan said the movement is on and threatened that it will be given a fresh vigor. The government would not be able to thwart the movement even after arrest of all top leaders of opposition alliance, he said.
A group of agents of the government is engaged in killing of people by setting fire to vehicles to badger the opposition’s campaign with questions, he alleged.
All fundamental organs of the state have been made loyal to the government which leads the country towards a vulnerable and unbalanced situation, he opined.
The ruling Awami League will be held responsible if any untoward incident takes place in the country due to its wayward attitudes at the opposition demand for election under a non-party poll-time administration, he cautioned.
Terming the government as fascist, Khan said ministers and lawmakers of the ruling Awami League have been incurred severe mass angers due to their one-party BKSAL –type attitudes.
The country’s democracy, independence and sovereignty are not secure in the hands of Awami League. The government is behaving with the people like ferociously to hang on to power by arranging a farcical polls, he said.
The government will face a serious debacle in the face of an intensive mass movement. The government will not be able to daunt the movement by letting loose its forces on the street, he said. – Staff Reporter
