Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has again urged the government to arrange a dialogue with opposition for reaching a consensus to form a non-party and neutral poll-time government to ensure a participatory election for transferring power through democratic process. In a statement following a standing committee meeting of the party held in Dhaka on Wednesday night with party chief Khaleda Zia in the chair, BNP also urged the government to immediately stop “all kinds of terror, “violence, killings, repression and aggressive and false propaganda.”
The standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the party, further said that the government should restore a congenial political atmosphere in the country and form a non-party and neutral caretaker government for protection of people’s right to vote and transfer of power in a peaceful and democratic way.
The highest policy-making body of the organization accused the government of pushing the country towards an anarchic situation by indulging in corruption, misdeeds and making provocative remarks against opposition parties.
“People of the country have never seen such a high degree of state sponsored terror since the independence,” it alleged.
The committee expressed its grave concern over the country’s jeopardised political and socio-economical situation. The country has been thrown into “a shameless partisan and corruption spree,” the meeting said.
Terming the ruling Awami League as ‘isolated from the people’, the party leaders said BNP has been carrying out movement in a disciplined manner to protest the country’s democracy.
But the government has unleashed state sponsored terror on the opposition party men so that their antigovernment movement cannot get momentum, the meeting observed.
The government is engaged in unleashing attack through opening fire on the opposition party’s scheduled political programmes including rallies and public meetings, the statement said.
Women activists of the opposition party are being harassed in may ways. They are being subjected to torture behind bars without any justification, the statement alleged. The party said the government is taking opposition party men into custody and forcing them to make confessional statement to tarnish political goodwill of the main opposition BNP.
The National Standing Committee alleged that the “crooked face of government” was revealed when it carried out what it said the savage attack on thousands of Hefazat activists at Shapla Chattor in the early hours of May 6.
The BNP cannot support the crackdown that was carried out under a funny excuse that the government would have been toppled if they continued their sit-in till the morning,
The resolution adopted by the meeting said many evidence including the video footage of armed ruling party supporters rampaging across the area with arson attacks and vandalising vehicles are in the possession of the opposition. Leaders of ruling party, including the Prime Minister are now engaged in carrying out a “dirty campaign” against the opposition particularly the BNP and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, it added. “Now the government is urging the opposition to sit for a dialogue without any basis by shunning the path of terror, destruction and killing. At the same time, they have shut all the doors to talks by saying that the evil anti-people step they have taken to hold the election by remaining in the power in line with the amended constitution,” said the resolution.
-With The Independent input
