Staff Reporter :
BNP’s call for national unity was turned down by the ruling Party’s General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday evening saying the BNP’s call for the national consensus over the Rohingya issue was designed to gain their narrow political interests only.
The minister asserted it while speaking at a programme in the city.
“The whole nation is united over the Rohingya repatriation issue. So, BNP does not need to forge any national unity and Bangladesh doesn’t want any confrontation for sending back the Myanmar nationals to their homeland,” he said.
“The whole world is now putting pressure on the Myanmar government to take back their nationals. BNP is now talking about the national consensus to breach the existing unity and also to derive political benefits.”
Criticising BNP’s overall activities in this connection, the AL General Secretary said, “We don’t want to send them (Rohingyas) using coercive power. Diplomatic effort continues for Rohingya repatriation.”
The BNP leaders held a meeting with the foreign diplomats in Bangladesh. but they (BNP) did not say anything about putting any pressure on The Myanmar government to end the crisis.
“Some NGOs (non-government organisations) are hatching conspiracies by using the Rohingyas for subversion. BNP wants to create anarchy and it is their (BNP) target,” the minister observed.
