Banning a party not best way

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, visiting UK foreign office minister, yesterday said she did not believe that banning a political party would be the best way to win the battle of ideas.
It is the public who can decide what kind of future they want for Bangladesh, Warsi told reporters after a meeting with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at the foreign ministry.
She also said "I'm a democrat, by that I believe most things should be solved through a democratic process."
Warsi, however, favoured those ideas that are in the public domain, saying the public can decide what kind of idea they want for Bangladesh.
Responding to a question on the next polls, she said "To have a proper election, you need proper representation of all political parties in those elections for making that acceptable to all."
Warsi said she spoke to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia and Dipu Moni on that issue (next polls).
Bangladesh has an opportunity to display real democratic maturity by showing that it can hold a free, fair and inclusive election, she told reporters.
"[So that] at the end it produces a result which is acceptable to people of Bangladesh," she said, adding that Bangladesh has a stable democracy.
On how the polls would be held, Warsi said what process they would adopt is going to be a decision of Bangladesh, not of a foreign country.
Warsi highly praised the Shahbagh protesters for holding their demonstrations in a peaceful manner. "People have right to protest…those protests should be free of violence."
Asked about her discussion with Dipu Moni, the UK minister said “We talked about the Shahbagh protest, war crimes, war crimes trial, election preparation, and trade, human rights and Rohingya issues.”