Staff correspondent
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect for January 7 to decide when they will take oath, according to party leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
The party will play a constructive role in parliament, he said.
‘The party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect in Dhaka for January 7,’ SQ Chowdhury, also the MP-elect for Chittagong 2 electoral constituency, told newsmen Sunday. ‘The meeting will decide when to take oath.
Jainal Abedin, MP-elect for Feni 2 constituency, echoed him.
SQ Chowdhury said all candidates of the BNP in the December 29 general elections, including the MPs-elect and the leaders of the party, had been asked to stay in their respective electoral constituencies to stand by the party activists and supporters as they were coming under attack
from activists of rival Awami League in different districts.
SQ Chowdhury, formar parliamentary affairs adviser to former prime minister and BNP chief Khaleda Zia, said, ‘The BNP will play a constructive role, upholding its ideals, in parliament.’
When he was asked about the stand of the party on the issue of war criminals, he claimed there were no war criminals in the party.
‘There are no war criminals among us’, he said. ‘Those who handed
over 93,000 Pakistani soldiers to the Pakistan authorities [after the war of independence in 1971] can better say who the war criminals are.’
‘If there is any war criminal among us…they [authorities] can take their course…We have no comments on it’, he said.
About the Awami League’s idea to form a South Asian taskforce to fight terrorism in the region, SQ Chowdhury claimed the BNP did not support the proposal.
‘The South Asian countries can work together under the SAARC system to contain terrorism’, he said adding, ‘We cannot allow aliens to roam freely in the country.’
Courtesy: newagebd.com
