BNP will go to power again
Hopes Fakhrul
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said his party would go to power would people's vote under a non party neutral government, not with the account of seats.
“In 1991 Sheikh Hasina had said that the BNP would only get 10 seats but we won the polls and formed government. We will do it again with people's support,” he said while addressing a protest rally in front of the party's central office in the capital's Nayapaltan.
The rally was organised as part of the party's countrywide demonstration protesting the finance minister's budget proposal and demanding restoration of caretaker government system.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the BNP claimed in 2005 that the AL would not even get 30 seats in the parliamentary polls but the opposite happened during the 2008 national elections. “They [BNP] only got 29 seats.”
The prime minister also said, “Now they are saying that Awami League will not even get 10 seats but I wonder if the same thing will happen again.”
Protesting her remarks, Mirza Alamgir yesterday said, “If you [PM] think that BNP will get fewer than 10 seats then why are you afraid to hold elections under a neutral government?”
He said the Awami League is conspiring to stay in power until 2021 but the people will not accept it.
“Our movement will get tougher day by day and the government will be compelled to restore the neutral government to oversee the election,” he said adding, “Let the game take place on a level field and we will see who wins.”
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