The main opposition BNP has said that it would resolve the caretaker government (CG) issue by taking their movement to the streets. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put obstacles on the path of holding fresh talks over the CG issue. The preparation to hold such talks will not be successful. The issue would only be resolved through intense street movements,” BNP spokesperson Shamsuzzaman Dudu said on Wednesday.
Dudu, also adviser to BNP chief Khaleda Zia, was addressing a press conference held at the party’s Naya Paltan central office in the capital.
“There is still time for the government to hold discussions with all major political parties over the CG issue. I believe that good sense will prevail at last and the government will take steps to hold the next general poll under the CG supervision,” he said.
“The country’s political situation is getting worse. BNP’s anti-government movement will get momentum and Sheikh Hasina would be forced to accept our demand for restoration of the CG provision to the country’s charter,” he added.
Earlier, the ruling party general secretary, Syed Asraful Islam, had said that he would put forward a formal dialogue proposal to BNP for resolving the issue of poll-time administration.
Dudu said the proposal has yet not been sent to the opposition.
On Tuesday, Junaid Babunagari, detained secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam (HIB), confessed to metropolitan magistrate Harun-ur Rashid that the BNP-led 18 Party Alliance had patronised the HIB rally at Motijheel Shapla Chattar on May 5, aiming at toppling the government.
Dudu discarded Babunagari’s confessional statement. “Only God knows what had happened during Babunagari’s remand, as no journalist or lawyer was present there,” he said.
He alleged that the country has become a police state, as opposition partymen are being arrested from jail gates soon after their release, in connection with other framed charges.
He said the government has imposed restrictions on political activities to gag the opposition’s voice, but to no effect.
People from all classes have made the daylong hartal in five upazilas of Dhaka district a success, he added.
In a separate discussion, BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said the government has failed to run the country properly, and, thus, has imposed a ban on political activities for a month.
The government’s evil efforts to cling on to power through illegal means have been revealed by its imposition of restriction on political campaigns, he alleged.
Roy said his party will refrain from all political activities, if the Prime Minister announces that she would not be the chief of the next election-time government. He was addressing a discussion on “Constitution and Bangladesh”, organised by Youth Forum, at the National Press Club.
-With The Independent input
