BNP vows movement
Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP and its allies including Jamaat-e-Islami and Gonotontromoncho vowed to continue their street movement until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and holding a credible election under a caretaker government.
BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday vowed that the ongoing agitation in the streets will be continued until PM Sheikh Hasina is resigned.
“This government has no right to stay in power anymore as the people have boycotted the polls,” Rizvi said while addressing a virtual press briefing on Tuesday.
He urged the government to resign soon for paving the way of holding the national election under a neutral caretaker government.
Besides, Rizvi also talked with journalists earlier on the day while distributing leaflets calling on the countrymen to join BNP’s non-cooperation movement near Kamalapur railway station on Tuesday.
He said the government is playing with the voting rights of the people.
At that time, Rizvi said countrymen and common people boycotted the election and thanked them for it.
The BNP leader has called for the cancellation of the 12th Jatita Sangsad (JS) polls, deeming it a ‘dummy and a farce’.
The party has called for movement for two days to press home its demands for cancelling the election till Wednesday.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said though the government was complacent with a one-party election, the people spontaneously boycotted the voting.
“They (govt) have shown a thumb to the people by holding such an election and playing games in the name of voting.
The people spontaneously boycotted the voting, no matter how complacent the government was with a unilateral election,” Rizvi said.
He said only those who belong to the ruling party and their cohorts were there in the election race.
“It was seen that they’ve stamped ballots themselves, fought each other in different places, indulged in violence and killed and injured each other in the empty polling stations in the absence of voters.”
Rizvi said BNP and like-minded parties have congratulated the country’s people at all levels as they boycotted polls, braving all threats and intimidations by the government.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami: Meanwhile, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami central Executive Committee Member and Dhaka South City unit Secretary Dr. Shafiqul Islam Masud on Tuesday said that their party will continue the movement until the government is resigned.
“We will continue our movement keeping the people with us until the illegal government is resigned,” Dr. Shafiqul Islam Masud said while distributing leaflet among the people in Khilgaon area in the capital urging to join the non-cooperation movement.
He said that the government spent Tk three thousand crores from the people’s asset illegally.
Dr. Masud also urged the people to make the ongoing anti-government agitation stronger.
The other leaders of the Jamaat also distributed leaflets in different areas in the capital echoed the same.
Ganatrantra Mancha: Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha, on Tuesday declared to continue movement until their one-point demand of resignation of the Awami League government would be met.
The leaders also said that the movement would be further expanded, and they would decide the style of the next movement by discussing it with their allies.
Mahmudur Rahman Manna, president of Nagorik Oikya, came up with the announcement at a press conference arranged by the Ganatrantra Mancha at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital.
Manna said, “We are still in our movement. And consistently, we have been holding every programme since October 28.”
“We declare that we will continue this movement continuously until the government would be resigned,” Manna said.
He said that the simultaneous movement would be continued, and they would expand it.
“However, the style of the movement will be decided through discussion,” he said.
