BNP declines AL's challenge
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Main opposition BNP has declined Awami League's challenge to bring a no confidence motion in parliament to unseat the government.
BNP Standing Committee Member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy declined the challenge when he was briefing newsmen after inaugurating a Free Medical Camp Saturday marking Tarique Rahman's birth anniversary in front of the party's Naya Paltan office, reports bdnews24.com.
Mr Roy said Syed Ashraf was well aware of the fact that the BNP has only 35 members in the 345-seat parliament.
"That falls far short of the two-thirds majority required to unseat a government through no-confidence motion", he added.
AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, also the Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives minister, said Friday that there were only two democratic paths to unseat the government-by voting it out of power and through a no-confidence motion.
Mr Roy said that 'autocrat Ershad' took over state power through an election, but had to withdraw before the tenure was supposed to end.
"If waging a movement against him was not illegal, a movement towards the same goal against the present government should also be legal," he added.
BNP Standing Committee Member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy declined the challenge when he was briefing newsmen after inaugurating a Free Medical Camp Saturday marking Tarique Rahman's birth anniversary in front of the party's Naya Paltan office, reports bdnews24.com.
Mr Roy said Syed Ashraf was well aware of the fact that the BNP has only 35 members in the 345-seat parliament.
"That falls far short of the two-thirds majority required to unseat a government through no-confidence motion", he added.
AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, also the Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives minister, said Friday that there were only two democratic paths to unseat the government-by voting it out of power and through a no-confidence motion.
Mr Roy said that 'autocrat Ershad' took over state power through an election, but had to withdraw before the tenure was supposed to end.
"If waging a movement against him was not illegal, a movement towards the same goal against the present government should also be legal," he added.