Awami League Advisory Council member and former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta urged the BNP to change its political outlook shunning power-centric ill- politics.
“Come out of power-centric ill-politics. Switch over to politics of democratic values shunning thoughts of militancy,” he said pointing at BNP.
Suranjit Sengupta, a senior parliamentarian of the ruling Awami League, made this call on Monday while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion in the city.
Nouka Samarthak Goshthy, a group of supporters of Awami League’s poll symbol ‘boat’, organised the discussion on current politics at the auditorium of Diploma Engineers Institution at Kakrail in the capital.
With its chief adviser and Dhaka City Awami League joint general secretary Haji Md Selim, MP in the chair, the discussion was addressed, among others, by veteran politician Mozaffar Hossain Paltu, former Judge Md Lutfur Rahman and president of Nouka Samarthak Goshthy Humayun Kabir Mizi.
Suranjit Sengupta said, “The administrative organs of the government would not sit idle if BNP wants to create anarchy in the country in the name of movement. The government could take any action whatever necessary against anarchy for the sake of stability and economic security.”
He said it can’t be taken as granted that an elected government would be toppled through movement as only six months of the five- year tenure of the government has elapsed. The senior Awami League leader said a new government could assume power through the next national election and there is no scope to bring change in the government without elections.
He said, “It’s not the language of democracy in any way to demand only the rise and fall of the government. On the contrary, the party in power and the opposition play their due role to create democratic culture.”
The senior parliamentarian said, “Taking lessons from its mistakes of the past BNP should take recourse to the politics of democratic values by discarding Jamaat.”
