The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday iterated that the general elections must be held under the caretaker government with a neutral
person at its helm.
The party, however, did not make it clear whether it would accept the cancellation of the caretaker government after the next two general elections under the system as ruled by the Appellate Division on Tuesday.
The BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that the party would make public its position on the verdict today. Senior party leaders sat at a meeting at the BNP chairperson's office at Gulshan on Tuesday night to discuss the matter.
'We will give our opinion on the verdict tomorrow [Wednesday],' Mirza Fakhrul said on Tuesday as he addressed a council session of the Tejgaon unit Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at Farmgate in Dhaka.
'But we want to clearly say, as announced by the party's chairperson Khaleda Zia, that the general elections must be held under the caretaker government with a neutral person at its helm,' he said.
Mirza Fakhrul also warned the government against any move for the introduction of electronic voting system. He said that the opposition would not accept the system.
He alleged that the government was hatching a plot to rig the next general elections to cling to power to establish one-party rule.
He said that the Election Commission would also need to be reconstituted with neutral and competent people.
Levelling allegations against the Awami League-led 'fascist' government, he said, 'The AL has no moral right to stay in power as it has failed to meet its pledges and failed to uphold the country's interests.'
Terming the government 'inhuman,' he said that Limon Hossain was shot at by the Rapid Action Battalion and the government was silent about the issue.
Mirza Fakhrul said, 'Mid-term polls are an imperative to establish a people's government.'
Source: New Age
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