BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the people have expressed their no-confidence in the government during the stage-managed 10th parliamentary poll held on January 5. She urged the government to arrange an inclusive and acceptable general poll immediately. “No inclusive and acceptable general election is possible without a non-party caretaker government (CG) and an acceptable Election Commission (EC). I urge the government to step down and cancel the recently held poll to pave the path for an inclusive and acceptable poll in a free and fair manner,” she added.
Khaleda Zia, also a former prime minister, came up with the call, in a written statement, hours after Premier Sheikh Hasina’s press conference on Monday.
She assailed the government for staging a farcical election, saying that the people have already realised the government’s conspiracy to hang on to power and that they have protested against it through the January 5 general poll.
“Now, the government has no moral and constitutional right to run the country,” she added. Khaleda criticised the government for carrying out acts of violence.
Courtesy of The Independent
