Accept demands to join unity
BNP's senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said Awami League will be included in the national unity process if the government accepts people's five-point demand for holding the next general election in a credible manner.
“Obaidul Quader has questioned how the national unity can be formed without Awami League. I would like to tell him a national unity has already been forged as different political parties came together with people's five-point demand for a fair election,” he said
Speaking at a discussion, the BNP leader further said, “If you apologise to people for your misdeeds and accept their five-point demand, we'll include you in the national unity, and we'll welcome you.”
He said the five demands of people are: dissolving the parliament before the announcement of the election schedule, resignation of the government, formation of non-party election-time impartial administration, reconstitution of the Election Commission, not using EVMs in the polls and deployment of army.
Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu Smriti Sangsad organised the programme at Jatiya Press Club demanding the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and its Dhaka south city unit president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel from jail.
Mosharraf, a BNP standing committee member, however, expressed doubt whether the ruling party will accept the demands. “They (AL) won't accept the demands as they don't have such morale. They don't have the courage to face people.”
He alleged that the ruling party is hatching plots against the national unity to cling to power by force and establish one-party rule.
The BNP leader also criticised the government for passing the Digital Security Bill, 2018 in parliament. He alleged that the government has made the law to perpetuate its power by gaging the media.
He also alleged that the government is implicating their party leaders and activists with several thousand “fictitious” cases to hold another lopsided election by force.
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