BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has urged the political parties and individuals who submitted nomination forms to stay away from a 'stage-managed' national election billed for January 7 to avert public wrath, reports UNB.
The BNP leader came up with the remarks while, seaking at a virtual press briefing on Wednesday.
Rizvi also called upon the public servants not to cooperate with the Awami League government in holding any ‘lopsided election’.
"Those who are either participating in the staged election or directly or indirectly helping in it, I, on behalf of BNP, call upon them to come back if you have even the slightest sense of patriotism, humanity, any conscience. Don't be the successor of Mir Jafar and don't be subjected to the hatred of 180 million freedom-seeking people," he said.
The BNP leader also urged those who have submitted nomination papers to withdraw those and boycott the election. "Otherwise, people will not forgive you for this unpardonable crime. Your name will be written in the pages of history next to traitors and Mir Jafar."
He also requested the voters to refrain from exercising their right to vote. "No officer or employee of the Republic should cooperate in the false election. "Try to pass the test of patriotism and faith."
Rizvi said the ruling Awami League has now become a party of hiring people from other parties.
He, however, said the government could not hire any genuine BNP leaders by alluring them with money and different benefits. "They could only hire some people who were expelled and abandoned by BNP in exchange for money."
bought and taken to the election."
Meanwhile, he said the current Awami League government will be ousted through a mass uprising like the autocratic ruler HM Ershad in the 1990s.
"Dictator Ershad was forced to resign on December 6, 1990 in the face of public outrage. This government also won't be spared from the anger of people. Their downfall would be ensured by a mass uprising in the month of victory," he said.
The BNP leader came up with the comment while speaking at a brief rally after a sudden procession together with some party followers on the road in front of Terokhadia Stadium in Rajshahi at 6:30am in support of the opposition's 48-hour blockade programme that will end at 6:00 am on Friday.
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