BartaBangla Report :: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the government to arrange a dialogue with opposition for reaching a consensus to form a non-party and neutral poll-time government.
In a statement following a standing committee meeting of the party held in Dhaka on Wednesday night with party chief Khaleda Zia in the chair, BNP also urged the government to immediately stop “all kinds of terror, violence, killings, repression and aggressive and false propaganda.”
The standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the party, further said that the government should restore a congenial political atmosphere in the country and hold the non-party and neutral caretaker government for protection of people’s right to vote and transfer of power in a peaceful and democratic way.
The highest policy-making body of the organization accused the government of pushing the country towards an anarchic situation by indulging in corruption, misdeeds and making provocative remarks against opposition parties.
“People of the country have never seen such a high degree of state sponsored terror since the independence,” it alleged.
The committee has expressed its grave concern over the country’s jeopardised political and socio-economical situation. The country has been plunged into a shameless partisan and corruption spree, the meeting said.
Terming the ruling Awami League as ‘isolated from the people’, the party leaders said BNP has been carrying out movement in a disciplined manner to protest the country’s democracy.
But the government has unleashed state sponsored terror on the opposition party men so that their antigovernment movement cannot get momentum to the streets, the meeting observed.
The government is engaged in unleashing attack through opening fire on the opposition party’s scheduled political programmes including rallies and public meetings, the statement said.
Women activists of the opposition party are being harassed in may way. They are being subjected to torture behind bars without any justification, the statement also blamed.
The party said the government is taking opposition party men into custody and forcing them to lodge confessional statement to tarnish political goodwill of the main opposition BNP.
The national Standing Committee alleged that the crooked face of government was revealed when it carried out what it said the savage attack on thousands of Hefazat activists at Shapla Chattor in the early hours of May 6.
The resolution also pointed out that the opposition leader given 48-hour time from May 4 rally at Shapla Chattor urging the government to response for a dialogue on a non-party caretaker government to oversee the next polls. She also invited the Prime Minister to have a meeting over a cup of teas at her residence, it mentioned.
The party policymaking body called upon the party leaders and activists to observe the death anniversary of Ziaur Rahman on May 30 with due manner.