The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said that they would not would not oppose Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s joining politics but
suggested that he should exercise ‘decent’ language in politics.
Fakhrul, addressing a meeting, said that he did not know for how many days Joy, son of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, would stay in Bangladesh or in the United States as he holds dual citizenship.
The DUCSU and All Party Students Unity of the 1990s organised the meeting at the National Press Club in protest at the prime minister and her son’s ‘indecent’
comments about the BNP’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, the eldest son of the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia.
Joy at an iftar party on July 23 alleged that Tarique had plotted to have Joy’s mother killed in the grenade attack on August 21, 2004 during the tenure of BNP-led alliance. Joy also said that he had information that the Awami League would return to power in the next elections.
Fakhrul said that before joining politics what Joy had recently said created a doubt in people’s mind. He said that earlier Joy had written an article in Harvard University saying that 35 per cent of the soldiers in the Bangladesh army were ‘militant.’
Fakhrul said that this was why the BNP was worried a little bit. He urged Joy to mix with people if he wanted to enter politics.
He said that Tarique had not suddenly joined politics and he had joined politics after mixing with grass-roots people for long. Tarique is the pathfinder of the youth community.
Fakhrul said that Tarique had brought about changes in politics by taking politics to grass roots which made the Awami League worried. It would be difficult to do politics for other political parties if Tarique could accomplish his tasks at grass roots.
The BNP leader said that Tarique could not be stopped with abusive words as he had already conquered hearts of people.
He criticised the prime minister for her comments that she did not want any more unconstitutional government like that of January 11, 2007 and that if this time such a regime came to power, it would stay there for even more than 10 years.
Fakhrul said that Hasina along with her party leaders had gone to Bangabhaban to attend the ceremony of oath of the unconstitutional government.
He said that the Awami League had termed that government an outcome of its movement.
Fakhrul said that the BNP did not support or want any illegal or unconstitutional government but it wanted to reinstate the provision of an election-time non-party government in the constitution which, he said, was what people wanted.
He said that people had already decided that they would no longer see the Awami League in power. People have asked the ruling party to go home through five city elections.
The party’s joint secretary general Amanullah Aman presided over the meeting.
Former student leaders of the 1990s, including Asaduzzman Ripon, Habibur Rahman Habib, Fazlul Huq Milon, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Najim Uddin Alam and Saifuddin Moni also spoke.
-With New Age input
