Bangladesh National Alliance chairman Nazmul Huda on Saturday floated a new party named Bangladesh Manabadhikar Party to bring the country’s all rights bodies under the political banner to establish human rights worthy state. Huda announced the new party at a news briefing at his chamber at Topkhana Road in the capital saying the new party would act as a guiding force of Bangladesh National Alliance as like 20-party alliance was led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party while the ruling alliance was led by Awami League. He urged the country’s all rights bodies to come under the banner of the new party. Huda, a founding leader of BNP, said the incumbent government was constitutionally legal although the way it assumed in office through January 5 election was not acceptable to all at home and abroad. He said the new party want to realise their demands including to enact human rights worthy laws for establishing human rights worthy of state utilising the incumbent government. He said there was no alternative to hold a free and fair election to consolidate democracy which would not be under the caretaker government or by a political government rather has to be done by the Election Commission. Huda, former communication minister, said the ruling and opposition parties after consultation in parliament would nominate a name of Election Commissioner. He emphasized on reform of election process including national voter ID card. Asked about his move to join BNP went vain following not get confirmation of becoming member of standing committee of the party, he termed it totally baseless. He also rejected the perception that he had meeting with BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in London saying, ‘Such claim is totally baseless.’ He, however, admitted that BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had met him several times particularly to discuss Dhaka district-based future programmes of movement. He said it was not wise for him to return to BNP as he said BNP has been doing politics of violence which politics he did not like. Asked whether the acronym of his new party, BMP, would create confusion following its similarity with BNP, he replied in negative. a
Source: New Age
