BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan has said there is no visible progress made in the talks held with the ruling Awami League and warned that the antigovernment movement will continue until any tangible result is attained to end the political impasse. “We don’t see any meaningful progress in the talks. We will continue the antigovernment movement until the ongoing political crisis over the poll-time non-party administration is resolved,” Khan told a press conference at the party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office.
He said: “Taranco (UN envoy) is here because we have failed to resolve our political problem through dialogue. The UN has to send its envoy to Bangladesh.”
“Holding of talks between the country’s two major political parties — Awami League and BNP — has become possible because of mediation by Taranco. It will be disgraceful, if the process comes to a halt after his (Taranco) departure from the country,” Khan told a questioner.
He said the government has hands in the acts of sabotage like setting passenger vehicles on fire and vandalism. The country has been passing through a crucial moment as the government has announced war against the people, he said.
Judiciary, administration and legislative body have been held hostage by one person and the country has also been turned into a big prison where there is no minimum security of the people’s lives and properties, he said.
A small number of MP aspirants have submitted nomination papers to contest in the upcoming parliamentary election, Khan said and asked the Election Commission (EC) to postpone the poll schedule.
If the EC does not stay aside from holding a lopsided national poll, it will be put in the dock, Khan warned.
The BNP leader said Awami League is determined to the hold a unilateral poll under its own management when the opposition is carrying out movement for election under a non-party caretaker government, he said.
“Time is still there. Please sun the suicidal path of unilateral national poll and take effective measures to suspend the poll schedule in the greater interest of the nation,” he said pointing finger at Premier Sheikh Hasina.
Khan said the government will not be able to thwart the movement even after arrest of all top leaders of opposition alliance.
A group of government agents is engaged in killing of people by setting fire on vehicle to badger the opposition’s antigovernment campaign with questions, he alleged.
All fundamental organs of the state have been made loyal to the government, which leads the country towards a vulnerable and imbalanced situation, he opined.
The ruling Awami League will be held responsible if any untoward incident takes place in the country due to its waywardness attitudes at the opposition demand for election under a non-party poll-time administration, he cautioned.
Terming the government as fascist, Khan said ministers and lawmakers of the ruling Awami League have been plunged into a severe mass angers due to their one-party BKSAL attitudes.
The country’s democracy, independence and sovereignty are not secured in the hands of Awami League. The government wants to hang on to power through arranging a farcical national poll, he said.
The government will face a serious debacle in the face of an intensive mass movement. The government will not be able to daunt the antigovernment movement by letting loose its forces on the street, he said.
-With The Independent input
