Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to run the government with a strong hand and proceed towards holding the national election soon, maintaining neutrality.
鈥業 would like to call upon the chief of the interim government to lead your government with a strong hand. Let no one get scope to say that you are exhibiting any favouritism,鈥� he said.
Mirza Fakhrul made this call while addressing a discussion over BDR carnage, arranged by BNP, at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka in memory of the martyred army officers who were killed in the 2009 Pilkhana tragedy.
鈥榃e hope that you will proceed towards the election by maintaining complete impartiality, completing the minimum necessary reforms as soon as possible,鈥� said the BNP secretary general.
Fakhrul alleged that Sheikh Hasina, staying in India, was planning and conspiring to thwart all the achievements of the mass uprising and victory as well to create anarchy and an unstable situation in Bangladesh. 鈥楢s part of her conspiracy, an unstable situation is being created in different ways from various parts.鈥�
He said that the interim government that came through the student-people revolution was formed on the basis of the blood sacrifices from some 2000 students and people. 鈥楽o, everyone hopes that this government will fulfil the expectations of people.鈥�
The BNP leader said that some quarters were trying to unfairly make the country unstable and the people of the country agitated as well as trying to bring everyone to the streets in various ways then.
鈥業n the same way, they are trying to create anarchy in the country. This is not good for the independence and democracy of Bangladesh at all,鈥� he said.
Fakhrul urged the people of the country to stay united by stopping mudslinging and debate and controversy to reach a democratic system.
鈥楢 few persons, a handful of persons, have targeted the BNP. They want to humiliate the BNP by resorting to negative campaigns and propaganda,鈥� said Mirza Fakhrul.
He said that BNP was a party that protected the country鈥檚 independence and sovereignty in the past and would do so now as well.
About the Pilkhana carnage, the BNP leader said that 57 brilliant army officers were killed in a well-planned manner. So many army officers had not been killed even in the Liberation War.
鈥楽o, come forward to take a vow that we鈥檒l protect the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh at any cost, ensure stability and restore democracy in Bangladesh,鈥� he added.
