The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday expressed confidence in the interim government and said that the party believed that the present government had no political agenda.
鈥楾he party hopes that the government will organise an election as soon as possible,鈥� BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said while addressing a discussion on the occasion of the 17th founding anniversary of the National People鈥檚 Party.
The NPP organised the discussion at the Sagar-Runi Auditorium of the Dhaka Reporters Unit in Dhaka.
鈥榃e will say, people love Dr Muhammad Yunus. They (people) will respect you in future also,鈥� he said and requested Yunust to remain careful so that the honour people gave him cannot be ruined.
He called Awami League a terrorist party and said, 鈥楾oday I express relief in celebrating the founding anniversary of the NPP. There was fear while holding meetings earlier [under the rule of Awami League]. Awami League is a terrorist party.鈥�
A democratic movement against fascists cannot be won with bare hands, he said, and added that the students and the people had proved that 鈥榠t is possible if the crowd is properly engaged鈥�.
Referring to AL鈥檚 repeated destruction of democracy, Fakhrul said, 鈥榃hat we need most at this moment is to establish a democratic state, which we dreamed of in 1971. The Awami League then came to power but did not form a democratic state.鈥�
He said that the AL destroyed the country through killings, looting and corruption.
Expressing his hope that the current government will hold elections soon, Fakhrul said, 鈥榃e have created an interim government through the student-people uprising. There is nothing to blame someone else. We hope that the government will organise elections within a very short or reasonable time. This is what we expect and what the people want.鈥�
鈥業 am noticing the restlessness of our leaders. Give a good election, the people will be happy. If we want to survive as a state, we must organise fair elections with the participation of all. So many lives have been lost in the movement for a fair election,鈥� he said.
About the search committee to form the Election Commission, Fakhrul said, 鈥榃e hoped that the government would hold discussions with the political parties before forming a search committee. But they didn鈥檛 do that. So, we do not consider it to be a big problem. We want the formation of the Election Commission quickly and it will organise the elections quickly.鈥�
Chaired by NPP chairman Fariduzzaman Farhad, the discussion was addressed, among others, by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdul Halim, Labour Party chairman Mostafizur Rahman Iran, and Nationalist Democratic Party 鈥� Jagpa chairman Khandakar Lutfur Rahman.
