Reza Mahmud :
The BNP has been waiting for the government’s initiative to build national consensus against militancy in the country. If the government does not do it, the party leaders will present their own plan to the nation, sources said.
“It is the responsibility of the government to sit with the political parties and the professional groups for quashing terror activists in the country. We are in wait of the government’s step. If there is no response, that will be sad,” said Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, a Standing Committee Member of the BNP. He also said, it is not necessary that the Awami League and the BNP will form a common platform, but views can be exchanged sitting together. That is important.
After Gulshan attack on July 1, BNP Chairperson called the government to forge a national unity, she sat with the 20 party alliance leaders on July 13 and professional groups on July 14.
The government also talked with different professional bodies. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid meanwhile met the college and the varsity teachers, and will talk with the madrasa teachers also.
The misguided gunmen killed several Italian and the Japanese at Gulshan in order to destroy the country’s image abroad. It might affect our direct foreign investment and garment export. In this circumstance, all the conscious people of Bangladesh think that the government will sit with political parties. That is the demand of the time.
Senior BNP leader Brigadier General (rtd) ASM Hannan Shah said, they are ready to forge national unity sans its key political ally Jamaat-e-Islam. But the government is still silent.
“The people will answer to Awami League’s policy of overlooking the BNP Chairperson’s call for unity to fight extremism in politics,” he said.
