People want restoration of democracy in the country: BNP

Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that people want the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.
 “The government has snatched democratic rights of the people. Everyone deprived of their rights in absence of democracy. Millions of common people in the country are participating in the movement nowadays which we have started to restore democratic rights,” the BNP Secretary General said while exchanging greetings with leaders of Hindu community in the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office in the capital.
Mirza Fakhrul said, “We all have to remember one thing that we are now in political crisis. That is the crisis of our existence, freedom, sovereignty and democracy. We have to overcome this crisis through democratic movement.”
 “As the non-elected government is in power, the whole nation is in crisis,” said the BNP leader.
“We always talk about 1971, the spirit of the Liberation War. But what is the spirit of freedom? The spirit of the Liberation War was to establish democracy in our country,” he said.
The BNP leader said, “The spirit of freedom is to preserve the rights of every human being. The spirit of freedom is to establish equality, human values and justice. Establishing a welfare state is a very important matter today.”
BNP Standing Committee Members Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury; Vice-Chairman Nitai Roy Chowdhury, chairperson’s Advisory Council Members Bijan Kanti Sarkar and Sukomal Barua were present, among others in the event.
Mirza Fakhrul said, “It is a matter of sorrow that our leader Begum Khaleda Zia, who used to sit always with us, first, has been sent to jail and now she is under house arrest. Our acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is in exile on false charges framed against him.”
 “I believe that the people of Bangladesh will wake up united within a short time as they did in the Liberation War. They will defeat undemocratic force to build a true Bangladesh,” the BNP leader said.