BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said the results of first phase of the upazila elections have proved that their party boarded the people’s train while the ruling party the freight one.
“The ministers made a comment that we had we missed the train. We would like to that say we didn’t miss the train rather Sheikh Hasina mistakenly got into a freight train. Upazila polls exposed that we’re on the train of people,” he said.
The BNP leader came up with the quip while addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club arranged by Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas), marking Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day. Terming the current government formed through the January 5 elections, unelected and unusual, Mosharraf said people through the upazila polls also have started showing their no-confidence in the regime.
He hoped that people will continue it in the remaining phases of the polls.
In the first phase of the upazila polls took place nearly one-and a half months after the national polls-held on January 5 amid boycotted by BNP-the BNP-led 19-party-backed chairman candidates won 56 upazilas out of 96.
Claiming that the country’s people did not go to the polling stations in the national election as BNP had boycotted it, Mosharraf said the voter turnout in the upazila election was around 62 due to their participation in it.
Criticising the Information Minister, the BNP leader said Hasanul Haq Inu talks tall but a Jamaat-e-Islami-supported contenders won in his native upazila.
He alleged that the current government coming through the farcical polls has imposed a tyrannical rule on the country’s people. “This government will be ousted through a strong movement under the leadership of Khaleda Zia.”
The BNP leader accused the government of snatching people’s basic human rights like the Pakistani autocratic regime and urged people to resist it imbued with the spirit of Ekushey.
“The spirit of Ekushey was to build a democratic Bangladesh. But, today people are deprived of their basic rights. The opposition leaders and activists are being killed, made to disappear, brutally tortured and harassed,” he observed.
