One-point is for all, not only for BNP: Fakhrul
Staff Reporter :
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged the government has again indulged in the games of implicating the opposition leaders and activists in false cases and arresting them ahead of the national polls.
The BNP leader reiterated their demands of resignation of the current regime and to hold the next parliamentary election under a non-party caretaker government.
“National polls under a non-party caretaker government has now become a national demand.
Everyone believe that election under Hasina government would not be free and fair,” Mirza Fakhrul said while speaking at a rally and silent road march organised by Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad (BSPP) at the Institute of Engineers in the capital on Saturday to press home the demand for government’s resignation and forming polls-time caretaker government.
Following the rally, a silent road march was brought out which got terminated reaching the Press Club premises. Leaders of lawyers, doctors, engineers, agriculturists, journalists, teachers, poets and novelists took part in the road march.
The BNP Secretary General said about four million criminal cases have been filed against the leaders and workers in a democratic country.
“In these circumstances, how can we compromise with them? How can we take part in election under them? Is it possible for anyone?” he asked.
“We all have to come forward to protect our independence and sovereignty. One point demand is not the demand of a particular political party or individual, rather, it is the demand of entire nation,” Mirza Fakhrul said.
He said, “The situation of the judiciary becomes very hopeless for us when we go to court. The most popular democratic leader of the country Begum Khaleda Zia has been kept under house arrest through court. The lower court punished her in a case, while the upper court extended that punishment. Where will we go?”
He asked the lawyers, professionals and intellectuals to get involved in one-point movement to oust the government.
“No change becomes complete until and unless the professionals and intellectuals come forward.”
Former attorney general and Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum’s president AJ Mohammad Ali presided over the rally.
AJ Mohammad Ali said, “The constitution has now become ineffective. We are trying to build a Bangladesh which is free from occupiers.”
“Our movement will continue until and unless a fair election is held in Bangladesh.”
Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) Secretary General Dr Farhad Ali, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Dr Anwarullah Chowdhury, Ganaforum’s General Secretary Advocate Subrata Chowdhury, and Jahangirnagar University’s teacher Professor Dr Abdul Latif Masum, among others, spoke in the event.
