CG needed as AL, BNP don't trust each other

BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan yesterday said the distrust had grown so much between the Awami League and the BNP recently that one would not participate in elections under other's administration.
"The political parties don't trust each other. So, if we intend to hold an acceptable election, it requires a non-partisan government," he told a discussion of Jatiyatabadi Samabay Dal, a pro-BNP organisation, at the capital's Jatiya Press Club.
The senior BNP leader criticised the government saying, it had "used the name of court for cancelling the caretaker government system" and that it wanted to hold on to power forever.
Separately, Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to bring the bill on the caretaker government system in the upcoming parliament session to avoid facing conflicts and people's wraths.
He also termed the new anti-government programmes of the BNP-led 18-party alliance, including rallies, as a political strategy of BNP chief Khaleda Zia.
Talking to reporters at party's Nayapaltan headquarters in the capital, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the Dhaka city units of the alliance would hold several collective meetings within August 31 to strength the ongoing anti-government agitation.