The people have started counting days to see the fall of the Awami League regime, the BNP said on Thursday.
“The countrymen still hope that good sense will prevail and the government will resign accepting the popular demand and thus save the nation from the crisis by allowing restoration of peace and stability,” BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed said in an email statement.
If the government fails to comply with the mass people’s demand, the BNP-led 20-party alliance will again call hartal and other programmes from next Sunday, he added.
In a rebuttal to premeir Sheikh Hasina’s claim that the people are not with the BNP, Salahuddin said, “If the people are with the Awami League, why then is the prime minister afraid of holding an election?”
“Why are you scared of the people? So, hold election and prove whom the people are with,” the BNP leader said.
On Wednesday, the premier told parliament that none of the seven-point charter of demands of BNP chief Khaleda Zia is meant for the people’s welfare. The people are not with the BNP, she said terming the seven-point demand a personal agenda.
However, the BNP chief, Khaleda Zia, in her charter placed on 31 December 2014, demanded mid-term polls under a non-party government.
Salahuddin Ahmed called on the prime minister to stop politics of vengeance and meet the people’s demand.
“If you want to save yourself from a disgraceful fall through the people’s uprising, if you want to save yourself from the people’s wrath, resign and announce holding of election under a non-partisan government renouncing the madness of clinging to power illegally,” the BNP leader added.
Source: Prothom Alo
