BNP wants to skip polls, says Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said his party (AL) wants to win in a competitive election to be participated by all political parties, however BNP wants to flee from election field.
"BNP's Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that Awami League wants to score goal in an empty field. In fact, we never want to score goal in empty field. We want that BNP to participate in the next elections with their full strength," he said.
"But as per BNP's statements it seems that they want to flee away from the field as they are afraid of elections," the minister said while exchanging views with reporters at the meeting room of the ministry at secretariat here.