Urging the Prime Minister to shun the move to hold a unilateral election, secretary general of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Abdul Mannan on Sunday night warned that any such polls will be resisted at any cost.
“Unilateral election will only pierce the country and put its democracy in jeopardy,” he said urging the Prime Minister to arrange an inclusive election through discussions with all political parties.
The BDB leader came up with the remarks after a meeting between a BDB delegation and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BDB presidium member Nurul Amin Bepari, joint secretaries general Mahi B Chowdhury and Abdur Rauf also attended the 40-minute meeting that started at 8:40pm.
Mannan said, “We want to affirm people that Bikalpa Dhara is rejecting the government’s plan to hold a lopsided election as it won’t bring anything good for the country.”
About the purpose of their meeting with the opposition leader, the BDB secretary general said they came to apprise her that their party rejected the government’s move for holding a unilateral election. “We some parties out of the 18-party alliance will resist any such move with alternative programmes.”
Asked what Khaleda told them, he said the opposition leader said those parties that love the country will boycott the lopsided polls.
Talking to reporters, Mahi said the government’s plan to hold the polls under the reconstituted cabinet of the grand alliance is nothing but a mockery.
He warned that BDB will launch tough action programmes in addition to the 18-party’s ones to resist any farcical and lopsided election. “We’ll be there in the field with people to resist any one-sided election,” he said.
Asked whether the government invited them to join the all-party cabinet, Mahi, also the BDB spokesman, said, “It’s not all-party cabinet at all…it’s a new addition of the grand alliance government. No party except the 14-party alliance will join it. The country’s people will resist if any election is held under it.”
Source: UNBConnect
