BNP-led alliance to observe Emergency Withdrawal Day on July 9
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
The BNP led four-party alliance Monday announced "Emergency Withdrawal Day" on July 9 and "Fundamental Rights Restoration Day" on July 16, reports UNB.
The alliance, spelling out its programmes at a protest meeting at Diploma Engineers Institution, also asked the Election Commission (EC) to cancel the schedule of city corporation and municipality elections slated for August 4.
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain who announced the new action programmes termed the present caretaker government 'unconstitutional', and said the government cannot hold local bodies' elections before the parliament election.
"The holding of local body elections by this caretaker government is unconstitutional, unlawful and beyond the morality," he told the meeting, organised to protest the price hike of essential commodities.
Delwar asked the government to abstain from holding the local elections against the people's expectation, and called for holding the general election immediately.
Saying that present unelected government does not have the right to speak on behalf of the people, the BNP leader said the Constitution does not allow the caretaker government to take policy decisions and make agreements with foreign companies on natural resources like gas and coal.
Delwar claimed that some quarters at home and abroad have been out to capture the state power. He urged the people to remain alert about such anti-state conspiracies.
He said the four-party alliance would observe the Emergency Withdrawal Day and the Fundamental Rights Restoration Day to press for immediate lifting of the emergency, protesting against the prisoners' tortures, and establishing the people's rights to food and employment.
The meeting was addressed among others by BNP standing committee members Dr RA Gani and Chowdhury Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui, Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Jatiyo Party (Manzur) chairman Barrister Andalib Rahman, and Khelafat Majlish ameer Maulana Mohammad Ishaque.
Mujahid said the caretaker government should not get involved in politics by keeping aside the issue of holding the general election. "This government has no relation with the people."
He urged the government to bring down the prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of the common people by providing the maximum subsidies.
The alliance leaders demanded the unconditional release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Jamaat ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami along with other political detainees. They also urged the government to allow Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko to go abroad for their treatment.
The alliance, spelling out its programmes at a protest meeting at Diploma Engineers Institution, also asked the Election Commission (EC) to cancel the schedule of city corporation and municipality elections slated for August 4.
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain who announced the new action programmes termed the present caretaker government 'unconstitutional', and said the government cannot hold local bodies' elections before the parliament election.
"The holding of local body elections by this caretaker government is unconstitutional, unlawful and beyond the morality," he told the meeting, organised to protest the price hike of essential commodities.
Delwar asked the government to abstain from holding the local elections against the people's expectation, and called for holding the general election immediately.
Saying that present unelected government does not have the right to speak on behalf of the people, the BNP leader said the Constitution does not allow the caretaker government to take policy decisions and make agreements with foreign companies on natural resources like gas and coal.
Delwar claimed that some quarters at home and abroad have been out to capture the state power. He urged the people to remain alert about such anti-state conspiracies.
He said the four-party alliance would observe the Emergency Withdrawal Day and the Fundamental Rights Restoration Day to press for immediate lifting of the emergency, protesting against the prisoners' tortures, and establishing the people's rights to food and employment.
The meeting was addressed among others by BNP standing committee members Dr RA Gani and Chowdhury Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui, Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Jatiyo Party (Manzur) chairman Barrister Andalib Rahman, and Khelafat Majlish ameer Maulana Mohammad Ishaque.
Mujahid said the caretaker government should not get involved in politics by keeping aside the issue of holding the general election. "This government has no relation with the people."
He urged the government to bring down the prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of the common people by providing the maximum subsidies.
The alliance leaders demanded the unconditional release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Jamaat ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami along with other political detainees. They also urged the government to allow Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko to go abroad for their treatment.