BNP won't go on agitation if AL exercises restraint: Delwar
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Opposition BNP said Saturday it would refrain from waging any agitation programme if the ruling Awami League (AL) exercised restraint over the issue of Khaleda Zia's cantonment residence, reports UNB.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said this while addressing a protest rally organised by Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal in front of the party central office at Naya Paltan against the government's decision of scrapping the lease allocation of Khaleda Zia' s Shaheed Mainul Road residence in Dhaka cantonment.
"Go to court - don't force us to take to the streets. Court will decide whether your (Cabinet) decision is lawful or not," Delwar asked the ruling party hierarchy.
He criticised the government for making a non-issue an issue like raising storm over a cup of tea and dragging it on since the Cabinet took its resolution on April 8, raising question in public mind what actually was going on in the state.
Delwar went on: When the country had weighed down with lots of problems, the ministers and leaders and activists of the ruling party and its front organisations were raising hue and cry over a house. "It's a trivial matter."
He, however, reiterated BNP's stand to extend cooperation to the government in fulfilling the ruling party's election pledges urging them to return to the path of law and democracy, changing their mindset.
Presided over by Tanti Dal president Humayun Islam Khan, the rally was addressed, among others, by Jubo Dal general secretary Moazzem Hossain Alal, Tanti Dal vice president Jahangir Alam Mintu, Muktijoddha Dal president Suhrabuddin and JCD vice president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said this while addressing a protest rally organised by Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal in front of the party central office at Naya Paltan against the government's decision of scrapping the lease allocation of Khaleda Zia' s Shaheed Mainul Road residence in Dhaka cantonment.
"Go to court - don't force us to take to the streets. Court will decide whether your (Cabinet) decision is lawful or not," Delwar asked the ruling party hierarchy.
He criticised the government for making a non-issue an issue like raising storm over a cup of tea and dragging it on since the Cabinet took its resolution on April 8, raising question in public mind what actually was going on in the state.
Delwar went on: When the country had weighed down with lots of problems, the ministers and leaders and activists of the ruling party and its front organisations were raising hue and cry over a house. "It's a trivial matter."
He, however, reiterated BNP's stand to extend cooperation to the government in fulfilling the ruling party's election pledges urging them to return to the path of law and democracy, changing their mindset.
Presided over by Tanti Dal president Humayun Islam Khan, the rally was addressed, among others, by Jubo Dal general secretary Moazzem Hossain Alal, Tanti Dal vice president Jahangir Alam Mintu, Muktijoddha Dal president Suhrabuddin and JCD vice president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku.