Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday criticised the ruling Awami League (AL) for the failure of its 20th council session to address how democracy and the people’s voting rights would be restored.
At a discussion, BNP’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed his frustration at the outcome of the two-day AL council session concluded Sunday.
The BNP leader, however, congratulated prime minister Sheikh Hasina for her reelection as AL president and election of Obaidul Quader as its next general secretary.
Mirza Fakhrul, in his instant reaction, also reiterated the hope that the AL leadership would work for restoration of democracy in the country.
“The BNP hoped that the prime minister would come out with an outline at the council session as to how a consensus could be built with the opposition parties. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen,” he told a discussion on late filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam, organised by Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Jote at Kochi-Kacha Building auditorium, in the city’s Segunbagicha area.
The BNP secretary general observed that the political uncertainty which was prevailing in the country since a long might deterriorate in the coming days.
“The Awami League has turned the council session as a matter of celebration and made a record of decoration of the city with lightings… but nothing was spelt about public aspiration,” he said.
UNB adds: The BNP leader said the people did not forget how the AL deceived the nation by holding the 5 January elections. He listed that their 1,000 leaders and activists were killed, 500 became victims of enforced disappearance, thousands maimed, and over 100,000 others are on the run facing ‘false’ cases for waging a movement for restoration of democracy. “This terror politics has established a true fascism in Bangladesh.” The BNP secretary general urged the country’s people to get united for getting back their all ‘snatched’ rights, including voting one.
