BNP distributes leaflets

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP- on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina used terrorists’ language and threatened the opposition parties on Wednesday during ruling Awmai League’s election campaign which kicked off from Sylhet.

“The way the prime minister spoke in Sylhet after starting the campaign of the dummy election is the language of terrorists. She issued threats in the language of terrorists.

Despite her such threats, people won’t go to the polling stations on January 7 and won’t cast their votes,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Thursday during distributing leaflets among the people in the capital with a call for refraining from voting in the upcoming ‘lopsided’ polls.

Rizvi questioned the premier as to why she is not arranging the national election under a non-party neutral government if she has so much courage and done huge development in the country.

“You don’t do it as you know very well that you will lose your security money if the people get a scope to exercise their right to vote,” he said.

Rizvi said there is nothing to boast about a dummy election, which the government is going to hold under its supervision using the state machinery.

“The people of the country have already turned down the election of distributing and sharing seats on January 7. No one will go to the centres except the ruling party followers,” the BNP leader said.

He called upon the people from all walks of life to get united and boycott the election.

“We urge people not to go to the voting centres on January 7 and ask others to do the same,” he said.

Rizvi said the regime of Sheikh Hasina is trying to hang onto power by holding a one-sided election as per its blueprint. Rizvi said that the January 7 election would not be acceptable both at home and abroad as the country’s people and foreigners were watching how the government was holding a lopsided election by fielding dummy candidates after snatching the voting rights of people.

The BNP leader said that those who had taken part in the election as dummy candidates out of their greed to get undue benefits and facilities from the government standing against the hopes and aspirations of the people would be identified as traitors and collaborators.

Rizvi along with some BNP leaders and workers first distributed leaflets in the Elephant Road area around 8:30am and later in the Bailey Road area among the pedestrians, shopkeepers and employees, rickshaw pullers, bus and auto-rickshaw drivers urging them to boycott the upcoming national election.

On Wednesday, the BNP announced a ‘non-cooperation movement’ against the government and urged the people of the country to boycott the next polls.