BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday urged the leaders and activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student organisation of the opposition BNP, to strengthen movement on the street to force the government to quit.
“Setting fire on one or two motor vehicles is not enough to intensify the movement. You have to force the government to quit by stronger agitation on the street,” he said while addressing a discussion meeting at the National Press Club.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal organised the meeting to mark the 49th birthday of BNP Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman. JCD vice president Bajlul Karim Chowdhury presided over the meeting.
The BNP leader said the 18-party opposition alliance will not take part in the election unless there is a change in the government behavior.
The government in one hand is arousing an election fever and on the other hand it is arresting the opposition leaders, he alleged.
Fakhrul said the government can not hold a free, fair and acceptable election by deceiving the people.
He said the present government is neither an all-party government nor a poll-time one, rather it is a restructured shape of the grand alliance.
Terming the government as ‘dangerous, monstrous and autocratic’, the BNP leader said the prime minister has been snatching away all democratic rights of the people.
He, however, cautioned that the government, led by Sheikh Hasina, could not cling to power in the name to constitution.
Fakhrul said the ruling party leaders do not go to their constituencies for fear of public wrath.
He, along with senior party leaders, cut the birthday cake of Tarique Rahman following the discussion.
Dhaka University teacher Dr AFM Yusuf Haider, BNP leader ABM Mosharraf, Mohila Dal leader Shirin Sultana, president of the National Press Club Kamal Uddin Sabuj, president of a section of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists Ruhul Amin Gazi and Abdul Awal Thakur, among others, also addressed the function.
Source: The Independent
