BNP urges China to focus on will of Bangladeshis

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP- on Saturday called on China to focus on the will of the people of Bangladesh.
BNP’s spokesman and its Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in a statement, said that the party had noticed the November 9 comment of the Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, made in a programme in Dhaka.

The statement said that the Chinese envoy had said that the political parties in Bangladesh should follow the constitution and join in the upcoming national polls which should be held as per the constitution of the country.
In response to the Chinese ambassador’s remarks, the party issued the statement.

The BNP said in its statement that the party was always respectful to the constitution of people of the country. But, the ruling Awami League, through a controversial amendment, changed the constitution so that they could remain in power through vote rigging, the release said.

The release further said that the elections of 2014 and 2018 proved that holding free and fair elections was never possible under the ruling Awami League government and so, holding the upcoming national polls under a non-partisan caretaker government had become a public demand of the country.

The ambassador’s remark that ‘the upcoming elections in Bangladesh should be held as per the country’s constitution’ does not reflect the will of the country’s people, the statement read.

China had been a friend and development partner of Bangladesh for a long time and so, the country should focus on the will and interests of the people of the country, BNP’s statement said.