The BNP again warned on Tuesday of tough demonstrations to push the government if it did not give in to the demand to hold the next national polls under non-partisan caretakers. Party's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir hoped the incumbent Awami League-led government will accept the demand and make announcements accordingly by June 10.
Saying Bangladesh is a country of civil uprising, he said the people knew how to get their demands. From the party's mass rally on Mar 12, BNP chief Khaleda Zia gave the government June 10 deadline to accede to the opposition's demand. Fakhrul was speaking at a discussion organised by '90s student leaders' at the city's National Press Club. The leaders demanded information about the whereabouts of missing leader M Ilias Ali, release of the detained party leaders and withdrawal of 'false cases' against them.
Fakhrul called on the people to stand against the government 'abducting' political leaders. He claimed that 127 persons had gone missing over the past three and a half years which constituted "no less than war crimes and crimes against humanity".
The BNP-led 18-Party Alliance will stage hunger strikes across the country on May 20 against 'forced disappearances' and killings and to demand information on the location of Ilias Ali. It will also hold countrywide agitation rallies on May 27 demanding national polls under a non-party, neutral caretaker government and withdrawal of cases against the central leaders.
Ilias Ali, an Organising Secretary and also the BNP's Sylhet chapter chief, has been missing since Apr 17. The opposition has been blaming the government for the disappearance. The BNP spokesperson also came down hard on the government for its 'repression' of the opposition parties.
He claimed the Awami League was filing false cases against the opposition party leaders while withdrawing cases against their leaders. Fakhrul also accused the government of embezzling millions of taka from the power sector, banks and capital market. He claimed the government's 'corruption in the Padma bridge project' had been proven to the World Bank.
Saying Bangladesh is a country of civil uprising, he said the people knew how to get their demands. From the party's mass rally on Mar 12, BNP chief Khaleda Zia gave the government June 10 deadline to accede to the opposition's demand. Fakhrul was speaking at a discussion organised by '90s student leaders' at the city's National Press Club. The leaders demanded information about the whereabouts of missing leader M Ilias Ali, release of the detained party leaders and withdrawal of 'false cases' against them.
Fakhrul called on the people to stand against the government 'abducting' political leaders. He claimed that 127 persons had gone missing over the past three and a half years which constituted "no less than war crimes and crimes against humanity".
The BNP-led 18-Party Alliance will stage hunger strikes across the country on May 20 against 'forced disappearances' and killings and to demand information on the location of Ilias Ali. It will also hold countrywide agitation rallies on May 27 demanding national polls under a non-party, neutral caretaker government and withdrawal of cases against the central leaders.
Ilias Ali, an Organising Secretary and also the BNP's Sylhet chapter chief, has been missing since Apr 17. The opposition has been blaming the government for the disappearance. The BNP spokesperson also came down hard on the government for its 'repression' of the opposition parties.
He claimed the Awami League was filing false cases against the opposition party leaders while withdrawing cases against their leaders. Fakhrul also accused the government of embezzling millions of taka from the power sector, banks and capital market. He claimed the government's 'corruption in the Padma bridge project' had been proven to the World Bank.
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