Reza Mahmud :
The high command of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is busy with Rangpur City Corporation election to make its candidate victorious.
The party is also working hard to select candidates for Dhaka North City Corporation’s by-election.
Ahead of the next Parliamentary polls, the party has taken the two city election as a ‘challenge.
The senior leaders of the party said, there is nothing to lose for BNP in the city polls.
They said that it was high time for the government to prove that they are honestly able to hold inclusive election.
If they fail to hold polls in Rangpur and Dhaka North
City Corporation in free and fair manner, then every quarter must support the BNP’s stand for election time neutral government before holding next national polls.
The BNP leaders think, in such circumstances, the government must try to hold inclusive election in the two cities.
They also think that their candidates would win and it would be milestones to prove their popularity across the country.
“The people from every corner of the country want a change. If any election is held in free and fair manner, the BNP candidates must win,” Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Joint-Secretary General of BNP told The New Nation Friday.
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has formed a committee to work for Kawsar Zaman Babla, the party’s mayor candidate for the Rangpur City Corporation polls.
She also has directed the party senior leaders to go and work for their Rangpur cadidate.
The party leaders said, the high command has given very importance to the city polls to revive the moral strength of the party grassroots level leaders and activists.
They said, if a party stays out of power for a long time, it makes the party workers morally weaker.
In this situation, the party high command has planned to revive their moral stamina through participating in the polls.
They think the winning of the polls will help them with a message of winning the national polls.
In this view, the senior leaders are all time busy with surveillance of the Rangpur City polls.
BNP Vice-Chairman Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, who is convener of the party’s Rangpur city polls conducting committee with other leaders has already reached the city. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other senior leaders will join them after participating in victory day programme in the capital on Saturday.
Party Chief Khaleda Zia will not go there due to her court hearing, the sources said.
Apart from these, everyday, the party senior leaders are giving speech about the irregularities of the election.
“The government is hatching conspiracy to cancel BNP nominated mayor candidate Kawsar Zaman Babla’s candidacy,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday while addressing the birth day ceremony of Professor Dr. Emajuddin Ahmed, the former Vice-Chancellor of the Dhaka University.
Meanwhile, BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, “The Election Commission has failed to create a peaceful atmosphere in Rangpur for a free, fair and acceptable polls. Musclemen of ruling party nominated candidate are seriously active in the city. There are huge panic prevailing among the voters.”
The party also busy with sorting out candidate for DNCC polls. Tabith Awal, the former candidate is likely to get nomination.
The high command of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is busy with Rangpur City Corporation election to make its candidate victorious.
The party is also working hard to select candidates for Dhaka North City Corporation’s by-election.
Ahead of the next Parliamentary polls, the party has taken the two city election as a ‘challenge.
The senior leaders of the party said, there is nothing to lose for BNP in the city polls.
They said that it was high time for the government to prove that they are honestly able to hold inclusive election.
If they fail to hold polls in Rangpur and Dhaka North
City Corporation in free and fair manner, then every quarter must support the BNP’s stand for election time neutral government before holding next national polls.
The BNP leaders think, in such circumstances, the government must try to hold inclusive election in the two cities.
They also think that their candidates would win and it would be milestones to prove their popularity across the country.
“The people from every corner of the country want a change. If any election is held in free and fair manner, the BNP candidates must win,” Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Joint-Secretary General of BNP told The New Nation Friday.
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has formed a committee to work for Kawsar Zaman Babla, the party’s mayor candidate for the Rangpur City Corporation polls.
She also has directed the party senior leaders to go and work for their Rangpur cadidate.
The party leaders said, the high command has given very importance to the city polls to revive the moral strength of the party grassroots level leaders and activists.
They said, if a party stays out of power for a long time, it makes the party workers morally weaker.
In this situation, the party high command has planned to revive their moral stamina through participating in the polls.
They think the winning of the polls will help them with a message of winning the national polls.
In this view, the senior leaders are all time busy with surveillance of the Rangpur City polls.
BNP Vice-Chairman Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, who is convener of the party’s Rangpur city polls conducting committee with other leaders has already reached the city. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other senior leaders will join them after participating in victory day programme in the capital on Saturday.
Party Chief Khaleda Zia will not go there due to her court hearing, the sources said.
Apart from these, everyday, the party senior leaders are giving speech about the irregularities of the election.
“The government is hatching conspiracy to cancel BNP nominated mayor candidate Kawsar Zaman Babla’s candidacy,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday while addressing the birth day ceremony of Professor Dr. Emajuddin Ahmed, the former Vice-Chancellor of the Dhaka University.
Meanwhile, BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, “The Election Commission has failed to create a peaceful atmosphere in Rangpur for a free, fair and acceptable polls. Musclemen of ruling party nominated candidate are seriously active in the city. There are huge panic prevailing among the voters.”
The party also busy with sorting out candidate for DNCC polls. Tabith Awal, the former candidate is likely to get nomination.
