No option to go back from movement: BNP
Staff Reporter :
The main oppostion party-BNP on Monday stated that the current Awami League government is illegal and there is no option to go back from movement.
“This government has to prove that they are legal one. I say and it is proved that this government is illegal as per the national constitution,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said it while addressing at a youth rally in front of the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters in the capital.
The rally organised by the Juba Dal, a youth wing of BNP to press home their demands of resignation of the government and dissolve the parliament, holding next polls under neutral government and release BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia unconditionally to take abroad for receiving advanced medical treatment.
Mirza Fakhrul said there was no scope of stepping back from the movement the party has already started to oust the incumbent government and hold the upcoming general election under a neutral caretaker government.
He said, “If we return home leaving this government in power, our youth will neither find jobs nor have peace.”
The BNP leader also expressed optimism that their movement will be success to overthrow this government.
“Today’s rally created a new hope among the people. This rally will play a vital role to make the next agitations stronger which is coming in the next days to overthrow this illegal government,” he said.
Mirza Fakhrul labeled the government as a constitution thief one.
He said. “You (youths of the rally) chant slogans saying the government is vote thief, but it is not only vote thief but the bigger crime they (govt) have done, that is the Constitution had been stolen by them.”
Speaking at the rally, BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas said, “The youths have to get ready for tougher agitation which will be started within days.”
He said, “The government is afraid of BNP leaders and activists, evident from the lawsuits filed against 43 lakh BNP members.”
Another Standing Committee Member, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, told the party men not to grow complacent over successful rallies until the government is overthrown.
BNP Vice-Chairman Barkat Ullah Bulu, Southern Convener Freedom Fighter Abdus Salam, Joint-Secretary General Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, Dhaka North unit BNP’s Acting Convener Professor Dr Farhad Halim Donor, among others, addressed the gathering under the leadership of Juba Dal President Sultan Salah Uddin Tuku.
