Staff Reporter :
The Jatiya Oikyafront on Friday sent a letter to Ganabhaban clearing its stance that they would not join the tea party at the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A three-member delegation of the opposition alliance went to the Prime Minister’s official residence of Ganabhaban to deliver the letter.
Jahangir Alam Mintu, a media wing staffer, and one of the delegation members of Jatiya Oikyafront, confirmed the matter on Friday.
He said that the Prime Minister’s Protocol Officer-2 Khorshed Alam received the letter signed by Oikyafront Steering Committee Member Subrata Chowdhury.
“We thank you for inviting us to exchange greetings at a tea party at Ganabhaban on February 2. The issue of the honourable Prime Minister’s tea party was discussed as one of the agenda at Thursday’s meeting of the Jatiya Oikyafront Steering Committee,” the letter reads.
It also says the Steering Committee unanimously decided not to take part in the tea party.
“The AL and its alliance’s coming to power again in an voteless election on December 30 is in no way a moral one. People’s minimum democratic rights and their authority to elect representatives by exercising their voting rights were snatched on that day,” the letter says.
Besides, it says, Oikyafront’s several thousand leaders and activists have been in jail while many leaders and activists of the alliance are still being arrested in new cases.
“Under the circumstances, it’s not possible in any way to join the Prime Minister’s tea party,” the letter adds.
On January 26, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina invited Jatiya Oikyafront senior leaders to exchange greetings at Ganabhaban tea party on February 2.
The Jatiya Oikyafront on Friday sent a letter to Ganabhaban clearing its stance that they would not join the tea party at the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A three-member delegation of the opposition alliance went to the Prime Minister’s official residence of Ganabhaban to deliver the letter.
Jahangir Alam Mintu, a media wing staffer, and one of the delegation members of Jatiya Oikyafront, confirmed the matter on Friday.
He said that the Prime Minister’s Protocol Officer-2 Khorshed Alam received the letter signed by Oikyafront Steering Committee Member Subrata Chowdhury.
“We thank you for inviting us to exchange greetings at a tea party at Ganabhaban on February 2. The issue of the honourable Prime Minister’s tea party was discussed as one of the agenda at Thursday’s meeting of the Jatiya Oikyafront Steering Committee,” the letter reads.
It also says the Steering Committee unanimously decided not to take part in the tea party.
“The AL and its alliance’s coming to power again in an voteless election on December 30 is in no way a moral one. People’s minimum democratic rights and their authority to elect representatives by exercising their voting rights were snatched on that day,” the letter says.
Besides, it says, Oikyafront’s several thousand leaders and activists have been in jail while many leaders and activists of the alliance are still being arrested in new cases.
“Under the circumstances, it’s not possible in any way to join the Prime Minister’s tea party,” the letter adds.
On January 26, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina invited Jatiya Oikyafront senior leaders to exchange greetings at Ganabhaban tea party on February 2.
