Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday said the opposition would resist holding of any election in the country if it is held under a political government.
He was addressing a rally organised by Dhaka city unit of BNP in front of the party's Naya Paltan central office in protest against 'police torture' and mobile court trial of opposition activists during the last 36-hour nonstop nationwide hartal.
BNP and its allies enforced the hartal in protest against the government's move to scrap the caretaker government system.
Accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of 'misinterpreting' the court verdict on the 13th amendment, Khandaker Mosharraf alleged that she was trying to hold the next general election under a political government to perpetrate in power as she lost her confidence in people.
'The court verdict has clearly stated that the next general elections could be held under the caretaker government provision,' he said.
'BNP along with the countrymen will resist the government's evil design to hold the election under a political government, not to speak of joining the election if the polls are not held under a caretaker government,' Mosharaf said.
He said the government would be forced to step down through a tough mass movement to retain the system of caretaker government for holding elections.
Mosharraf, also a former minister, came down heavily on the government for what he said launching an 'unprecedented repression and torture' on the opposition activists during the last hartal hours.
He demanded withdrawal of all 'false cases' filed against the BNP leaders and activists in connection with hartal and immediate release of all who those who were arrested.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the government was losing ground day by day.
'That's why,' he said, 'the Awami League was conspiring to abolish the caretaker government system to pave the way for holding the next general election under its own regime to regain the power somehow.'
He called upon his party activists to get prepared to take part in another 71-like war to protect the country's independence and sovereignty.
The BNP acting secretary general strongly condemned and protested at the police action on a march programme of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports.
The police in front of the National Press Club on Tuesday stopped a march of the committee headed for the energy ministry when about 10 activists, including anthropologist Rehnuma Ahmed, were injured in police action.
Mirza Fakhrul said Sheikh Hasina has stained her hands with blood by launching attacks on the country's leading personalities.
Presided over by BNP vice-chairman and Dhaka city mayor Sadeque Hossain Khokha, the protest rally was also addressed, among others, by BNP standing committee member MK Anwar and Nazrul Islam Khan, chairperson's advisers Abdul Mannan and Shamsuzzaman Dudu and joint secretary Amanullah Aman.
source:New Age
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