Senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed has urged the government to reach an understanding with the opposition following its electoral defeat in five city corporations.
He claimed the people had rejected the ruling-party endorsed candidates due to the government’s ‘utter failures’.
“The results will be same if the national elections are held right now,” Moudud claimed at a discussion on Friday in Dhaka.
“I’d like to ask the government to make compromises [with the opposition]. Our stand is clear … This understanding must take place for the sake of a free and fair election under a non-party government,” the BNP leader said.
A former Awami League leader himself, Moudud warned the ruling party would drift away from the mainstream politics if it did not make the compromise.
He argued an understanding was necessary to dispel the mistrust between the parties.
As a pre-condition, the former Law Minister suggested the government withdrew the ‘false cases’ against the opposition activists and released those behind bars.
Moudud said the general election must take place with a neutral caretaker government in place to oversee it.
“We have heard there are only two paths open to the ruling party now after its crushing defeat in the five city polls. One is violence and the other is compromise,” he said.
Source: Bd news24
