People will foil a party's bid with fallen dictator for power: Delwar

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BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday said through voting at the upcoming polls people would frustrate a party's design to go to power under an "entente with the fallen dictator," reports UNB.
Addressing a meeting marking the fall of former autocratic President Ershad at the Institution of Engineers, he reminded that they had pulled down the dictatorial regime through relentless movement. "It is a shame to try to go to power under an entente with this autocrat," he said.
Delwar said the people fought for democracy but attempts were now being made to reinstall the autocrat in the name of election.
"We want election as without democracy there cannot be any development of the country," he told the meeting, organised to observe the 'Democracy Day' in commemoration of the 1990 people-power movement that put an end to nine-year rule of general Ershad.
But, he made it clear that they wanted such an election where people's verdict would be reflected and their fundamental rights restored.
The meeting was also addressed by Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed, BJP secretary-general Shamim Al Mamun and IOJ secretary-general Abdul Latif Nezami.
Earlier, while visiting slain President Ziaur Rahman's mazar along with BNP leader Mirza Abbas on his release from jail, Delwar said chances of holding fair elections were bleak as certain quarters wanted to rehabilitate 'political orphans' through the elections.
In an oblique reference to the anti-corruption purge in the interim period that had put top politicians behind bars following the January 11, 2007 changeover, he alleged that politicians were kept aloof from elections in the name of corruption.