The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the party would definitely go for general elections if a level playing field was ensured.
He said this in response to comments ruling party leaders made that the BNP would finally join the next general elections. Fakhrul at a discussion at the Purbani Hotel in the evening said that BNP was a democratic party which believed in elections and in the change of government through elections.
He said that the BNP would definitely take part in the general elections but a level playing field would need to be created.
Fakhrul said that no elections would be held or allowed to be held without a non-party caretaker government in place.
The MBA Association of Bangladesh organised the discussion on the ‘Political thought for future: Bangladesh and Development’ of Tarique Rahman, the BNP’s senior vice-chairman.
The association’s president Syed Alamgir presided over the programme. The BNP chairperson’s advisory council members Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and Sawkat Mahmud, the party’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and former Dhaka University pro-vice-chancellor AFM Yusuf Haider also spoke.
-With New Age input
