BNP asks AL to apologise for past mistakes of enforcing hartals
Monday, 29 November 2010
Main opposition BNP has asked the ruling Awami League (AL) to apologise to the people for its past mistake of enforcing hundreds of hartals, saying that only then the opposition will think about not resorting hartals, reports BSS.
The leaders of BNP and other like-minded political parties warned that more hartals, even non-stop hartal, would come in future if Tuesday's countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike (hartal) was obstructed.
The leaders were speaking at a rally held as part of the BNP's programme in the divisional headquarters against the 23-month-old Awami League (AL) government's 'failures and misrule, and repression' on its political opponents. City BNP organised the rally at the city's Muktangon Sunday afternoon.
Presided over by BNP vice-chairman and city Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the day's rally was also addressed, among others, by BNP leaders MK Anwar, Abduallah Al Noman, Shamsuzzman Dudu, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amanullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, and NDP president Golam Mortuza, BJP secretary general Shamim-Al-Mamun and Khelafat Majlish secretary general Ahmed Abdul Kader.
Addressing the rally as the chief guest, BNP standing committee Member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain asked the party in power to first seek pardon from the people for its past mistakes of enforcing hundreds of hartals. Only then make the request about not enforcing hartal and BNP would think about it, he added.
Giving statistics of the hartals called by the opposition during the two previous governments of BNP, Mr Mosharraf said the AL called 173 days of hartal during 1991-96 period and 131 hartals during 2001-06.
Justifying the BNP's previous two hartals on June 27 and November 14 and the hartal Tuesday (November 30), he said they enforced the hartals for public interest including resolving the crisis of gas, electricity and water, reducing price-hike of essentials, protesting worsening law and order situation, demanding security to public life, protecting the border and scrapping anti-national agreements.
The BNP leader said the government was dishing out misinformation about hartal to confuse the people in their bid to divert the ongoing anti-government movement.
He urged all units of Dhaka city BNP to hold rallies and processions in each ward and thana to involve people in support of hartal.
Secretary General of BJP, a component of BNP-led four-party alliance, Shamim-Al-Mamun said, "If the government continues its repressive course and obstructs Tuesday's hartal then 72-hour and even non-stop hartals will come to oust the 'autocratic AL' government.
The leaders of BNP and other like-minded political parties warned that more hartals, even non-stop hartal, would come in future if Tuesday's countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike (hartal) was obstructed.
The leaders were speaking at a rally held as part of the BNP's programme in the divisional headquarters against the 23-month-old Awami League (AL) government's 'failures and misrule, and repression' on its political opponents. City BNP organised the rally at the city's Muktangon Sunday afternoon.
Presided over by BNP vice-chairman and city Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the day's rally was also addressed, among others, by BNP leaders MK Anwar, Abduallah Al Noman, Shamsuzzman Dudu, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amanullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, and NDP president Golam Mortuza, BJP secretary general Shamim-Al-Mamun and Khelafat Majlish secretary general Ahmed Abdul Kader.
Addressing the rally as the chief guest, BNP standing committee Member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain asked the party in power to first seek pardon from the people for its past mistakes of enforcing hundreds of hartals. Only then make the request about not enforcing hartal and BNP would think about it, he added.
Giving statistics of the hartals called by the opposition during the two previous governments of BNP, Mr Mosharraf said the AL called 173 days of hartal during 1991-96 period and 131 hartals during 2001-06.
Justifying the BNP's previous two hartals on June 27 and November 14 and the hartal Tuesday (November 30), he said they enforced the hartals for public interest including resolving the crisis of gas, electricity and water, reducing price-hike of essentials, protesting worsening law and order situation, demanding security to public life, protecting the border and scrapping anti-national agreements.
The BNP leader said the government was dishing out misinformation about hartal to confuse the people in their bid to divert the ongoing anti-government movement.
He urged all units of Dhaka city BNP to hold rallies and processions in each ward and thana to involve people in support of hartal.
Secretary General of BJP, a component of BNP-led four-party alliance, Shamim-Al-Mamun said, "If the government continues its repressive course and obstructs Tuesday's hartal then 72-hour and even non-stop hartals will come to oust the 'autocratic AL' government.