The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Saturday said that the people of Bangladesh would resist the government's move to hold the next general elections under a political government.
Alamgir made the above statement at the party's central office in Naya Paltan when the newsmen asked him to express his party's instant reaction to the placing of the Constitution Amendment Bill at the Jatiya Sangsad.
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Shafique Ahmed placed the Bill with proposals for scrapping the election-time caretaker government system and considering the unconstitutional capture of state power to be treason.
The Bill, which also included proposals of the parliamentary special committee on constitutional amendments, was placed before the House from which the BNP has been absent for a long time.
'The way the government is going ahead with its plan to scrap the caretaker government provision, ignoring the popular demand for it, shows that it does not have any shame,' said Alamgir. 'The Awami League is planning to hold the next general election under its own government. We will strongly protest against this ill-motivated move.'
'We have repeatedly said that we do not accept the move for holding elections under a political government, and the people of Bangladesh as well will not accept general elections if they are not held under a caretaker government,' he said. 'The people of the country will resist such an ill-motivated move.'
The BNP spokesperson said that after June 28 his party would announce tougher agitation programmes against the government's attempt to scrap the caretaker government provision in a 'bid to hold the next polls under the ruling AL's minions'.
Later, at a pre-procession rally in front of the party's office, Alamgir warned the government against taking any unilateral step. 'It will do no good to the nation and AL itself as well.'
BNP's Dhaka city unit organised the procession to mark one year of the abduction of its leader Chowdhury Alam.
Alamgir, speaking on the occasion, asked the government to find out the whereabouts of Chowdhury Alam within one day.
'Trace Chowdhury Alam in the next 24 hours, otherwise you [government] will be held responsible for abducting him,' said Alamgir.
Chowdhury Alam was abducted by a group of unidentified men on June 25 last year.
Painting a gloomy picture of the country's deteriorating law and order situation, Alamgir alleged that the 'repressive' Awami League-led government has turned the country into a 'valley of death'.
Source : New Age
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