Bangladesh: BNP prepares for movement, election: Fakhrul

Dhaka, July 6, 2013 (New Age): The acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that the party was being reorganised for intensifying movement after Eid-ul-Fitr and preparing for early elections simultaneously. He made the statement while talking to reporters after visiting BNP chairperson’s media wing official Shamsuddin Didar at a hospital at Mirpur. Shamsuddin was injured in a traffic accident on June 30 when he was returning home after attending an iftar party hosted by the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, at Eskaton. Fakhrul said that the government was not elected by people, but it was holding the power forcibly. Replying to a question about the prime minister’s comments that Awami League would foil BNP’s movement after Eid, the BNP leader said, ‘The ministers are talking nonsense. They are not elected by the people. The Awami League took away the peoples’ right to vote through the January 5 elections. The people now want them to quit.’ Doctors Association Bangladesh joint secretary SM Rafiqul Islam and BNP chairperson’s media wing official Sayrul Kabir Khan were present.