No dialogue until caretaker govt demand met: BNP

News Desk :
The BNP would be willing to engage in talks with the Awami League if the ruling party accepts its demand for the installation of a non-partisan government ahead of the next national election, according to party leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

The talks could then focus on the constitution of the caretaker government, he said during a media briefing on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com

The BNP secretary general accused the government of pushing the country towards a state of conflict and warned that the upcoming elections would not be like those held in 2014 and 2018.

He also addressed comments made by his Awami League counterpart Obaidul Quader to the visiting US pre-election monitoring panel.

Quader reportedly told the US delegation that the BNP was ‘blocking the path to political compromise’. But Fakhrul dismissed his claims as a ‘big lie’.

He emphasised that the BNP’s sole condition for engaging in a dialogue is the government’s acceptance of the opposition group’s demand for a neutral election-time government.

On the BNP’s meeting with the US pre-election observation team, he said, “We told them that a fair election is not possible in the current circumstances.

She [Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina] must resign.

There can be no election without the transfer of power to a non-partisan government.”

“They [the government] are thinking about [holding] a one-sided election without any voters to get re-elected. But that will not happen this time.”