Awami League Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta on Monday requested BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to take recourse to democratic politics shunning the path of violence showing respect to the order of the country’s apex court.
“The country’s apex court, Supreme Court, has issued an order to restore law and order in the country stopping hartal-siege. If BNP possesses minimum respect to the rule of law, it will adhere to the court order taking recourse to constitutional-democratic politics withdrawing hartal-siege programme,” he said.
Suranjit Sengupta, also a senior parliamentarian of the ruling Awami League, said this while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion in the city.
Bangabandhu Academy organised the discussion on current politics at the auditorium of Diploma Engineers Institution at Kakrail with its secretary general Humayun Kabir Mizi in the chair.
Adviser of the host organisation Engineer Md Abdul Motaleb and Samyabadi Dal central leader Haroon Chowdhury also spoke at the discussion, among others.
Suranjit Sengupta said, “The constitutional movement is more powerful than that of the movement of subversive acts. Violence and subversion weaken any democratic movement as workers of democratic movement stay far away from the movement of violence and subversion. Ultimately, such a movement goes in the hands of terrorists and subversive elements.”
He said legitimacy of any movement could be established through constitutional movement while the movement gets momentum with people’s participation.
The senior Awami League leader said people of the country would go against BNP as long as it delays to shun violence and subversion and in the process, BNP would lose the remaining legitimacy of their movement. Pointing at BNP, Suranjit Sengupta said, “Take recourse to democracy shunning the path of spilling bloods.
