The acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on Thursday accused the ruling Awami League of pushing the country towards uncertainty as its popularity, what he said, was on the wane.
Mirza Fakhrul was addressing a ceremony at the party’s Naya Paltan central office in which a group of leaders and activists of Tangail’s Shakhipur municipality unit of AL and Krishak Sramik Janata League joined the BNP.
Some 200 AL and KSJL leaders and activists joined the main opposition under the leadership of former mayor of Shakhipur municipality and KSJL leader Sanwar Hossain and former general secretary of AL’s Shakhipur municipality unit Abdul Gafur, BNP sources claimed.
Asaduzzaman Milton, a former commissioner of Shakhipur municipality and local AL leader, also joined the BNP, they said.
BNP chairperson’s adviser Ahmed Azam Khan, also Tangail district BNP president, and joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, also the office secretary of the party, attended the joining ceremony.
Welcoming the newcomers to the BNP, the party acting secretary general said, ‘You are joining the party at a time when Bangladesh is passing through a grave crisis caused by the ruling party.’
‘The country’s socio-political situation is fragile and its economy is in a shambles due to misrule,’ he said.
Mirza Fakhrul referred to the recent share market debacle and said, ‘Some 33 lakh small investors bore the brunt of share market manipulation.’
‘No new industries are being set up in the country while old ones are being shut down,’ he alleged.
Accusing the government of pushing the country towards uncertainty by creating a constitutional crisis, the BNP spokesperson said, ‘With its popularity on the wane, the government is unsettling the settled issues.’
‘We do not know under which constitution the country is running now. We do not know exactly whether the caretaker government system exists and whether the next general elections will be held under a political government,’ he said.
He said, ‘All the pillars upon which democracy rests have been destroyed by the Awami League-led government. Judiciary has been ravaged through wholesale politicisation while political rivals are being persecuted.’
Mirza Fakhrul vowed to compel the government to hold interim polls for establishing a ‘popular’ government.
He congratulated BNP party chairperson Khaleda Zia for her ‘successful’ visit to the US and UK.
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