BNP will stay on streets until govt dethroned

Says Dr Moyeen Khan

FE Team | Published: December 23, 2023 22:26:26

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said their party will be there on the streets until the fall of the current Awami League government, which they vowed to bring about peacefully, reports UNB.
"We're carrying out the movement to get back basic rights and the voting rights of people. We're on the streets and we will be there on the streets with this goal until this autocratic regime is unseated," he said.
The veteran leader made the remarks while distributing leaflets--containing their party's call to boycott the upcoming elections--among pedestrians in front of the Jatiya Press Club.
Dr Moyeen, a BNP standing committee member, said their party is committed to establishing a pro-people government in the country by removing the unrepresentative government in a completely peaceful and systematic democratic process like a non-cooperation movement.
"We are distributing leaflets on the streets to make people aware of their rights. We're talking to people to encourage them to carry out the fighting for establishing a representative government," he said.
He questioned why the Awami League government is so afraid of people's votes even though it claims to have carried out massive development in the country.
"Why are they (govt) holding a fake one-sided election of (seat) sharing and distributions? This is now the question of 180 million (18 crore) people of Bangladesh," he said.
Dr Moyeen along with the leaders of Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal, the freedom fighters' wing of BNP, distributed the leaflets to drum up public support in favour of the opposition's stance on boycotting the upcoming election slated for January 7.
Earlier in the morning, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi also distributed the leaflets in the capital's Rampura and Shahjahanpur areas.
Talking to journalists at Rampura, Rizvi said the government is arranging a farcical election by fielding dummy candidates themselves using the state machinery.
He said the government usurped power in 2014 and 2018 without voting with the help of a neighbouring country. "They're again trying to retain power through another stage-managed election with the support of the neighbouring country, ignoring the opinions of the country's people."
The BNP leader called upon the country's people to boycott the election and not to go to the polling stations to cast their votes on January 7.
The leaders of BNP and like-minded parties distributed the leaflets in different areas of the city urging people to boycott the lopsided election.