BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their party will neither join the Prime Minister’s proposed polls-time all-party cabinet nor participate in the general election under such administration.
“We want to clearly state that BNP will neither join the all-party government nor take part in the polls under the government,” he said.
Fakhrul came up with the remarks responding to a question from reporters at a press briefing on the first 10 hours of the 18-party’s 60-hour nationwide shutdown at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
The BNP-led opposition alliance enforced the general strike at 6am on Monday to force the government for arranging the next polls under a non-partisan administration.
Fakhrul alleged that the Prime Minister is repeatedly saying about formation of a polls-time all-party government to hold a unilateral election under their own administration without responding to the call of the opposition for arranging the national election under a non-party government.
“The Prime Minister’s initiative for formation of an all-party polls-time government is pushing the country’s already overheated politics into further confrontation,” he said.
The 18-party spokesman said though the government talks about dialogue, they are trying to cruelly suppress their movement by killing people, attacking and harassing the opposition leaders and arresting them in “false” cases.
He alleged that the government has let loose the members of police, Rab, BGB and ruling party cadres against the common people like the previous hartals to foil the opposition’s justified movement for establishing people’s voting rights.
Fakhrul claimed that two opposition men were killed in firings and attacks by the law enforcers and ruling party cadres since Sunday evening to 4pm on Monday.
Besides, he said, police arrested over 500 opposition activists across the country during the hartal hours, while more than 1,800 were injured in attacks by law enforcers and ‘ruling party cadres’.
Over 8,000 opposition men were implicated in fresh ‘false’ cases and four activists sentenced to different jail terms by mobile courts, he further claimed.
Source: UNB Connect
