Information minister Abul Kalam Azad on Wednesday told the Jatiya Sangsad that the stance of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party of waging a street movement would fail to press home its demand for keeping the provision for caretaker government in the constitution.
'You [BNP] go and wage your street movement. It won't be a problem for us. We will go on working in the parliament as usual to strengthen the Election Commission to ensure free, fair and credible elections,' the minister said while speaking on the proposed budget for fiscal 2011-2012.
He also accused the BNP of conspiring to grab state power using the armed forces and said the party was still hatching such a plot. 'They [BNP] always came to power through conspiracy, using the military forces, and now they are hatching such a conspiracy again,' said the minister.
He said from the country's history it was evident that an elected government was far more effective than martial law or caretaker government for ensuring people's welfare.
He urged the BNP to discuss the issue in the parliament to find out ways for ensuring free, fair and credible elections.
He also said Awami League was a party that had experience of waging many a successful movement in the past including the Independence War and warned the BNP that its movement would not be effective against the government led by such a party.
Abul Kalam Azad said 14 journalists were killed and 347 others physically tortured during the regime of the last BNP-led alliance government.
He claimed the massive corruption of Hawa Bhaban during the last BNP-led alliance government tarnished the country's image abroad and now its 'conspiracy' was hindering the government's development activities.
Source : New Age
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