BNP won’t let AL hold whimsical polls: Rizvi

Staff Reporter  :
The main opposition party-BNP-on Sunday vowed that it would not let the Awami League government hold the next general election as per its whims.

“We will not let this government hold another voterless election as per their whims.

The people of the country must resist such government’s efforts with utmost movement,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said it after leading a procession in support of the party’s ongoing 48 hour blockade on Sunday.

Rizvi led the procession from Kakrail intersection that ended at Shantinagar chanting different slogans demanding cancellation of the 12th general election scheduled for January 7.

Besides, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi also asked the people to strengthen the ongoing agitation for ‘restoration of democracy’ ousting the AL government, during a virtual press briefing on Sunday.

He said the government is staging drama in the name of election, but the people are not paying any heed to these dramatic polls.

The BNP and its allies like Jamaat-e-Islami called the 9th phase 48 hour blockades to mount pressure on the Awami League regime to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan government.

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the program at a virtual press briefing on Thursday.

The fresh agitation was announced around 13 hours before the end of the opposition’s 48-hour nationwide blockade.

Meanwhile, sources said that the BNP is likely to take preparation to hold a protest rally in the capital on December 10, on the occasion of Human Rights Day.

It has a plan of gathering family members of the people, who have been victims of forced disappearance, murder, jail sentence, imprisonment and harassment, according to party sources, in the programme.

The ruling Bangladesh Awami League is set to hold a rally in the capital on December 10 to mark Human Rights Day.