Boycotting next polls to be suicidal for BNP: Menon

RAJSHAHI, Mar 31 (BSS): Workers Party of Bangladesh president and Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon said here today BNP should take part in the next general elections as boycotting the polls will be suicidal for it.
"I think BNP will join the next general elections and it will be the right decision for them (BNP) as boycotting the polls will be suicidal," he told a public meeting organised by his party at Saheb Bazar Zero point this afternoon.
Menon said the next election will be held under the present government as per constitution.
Workers Party of Bangladesh General Secretary Fazley Hossain Badsha, MP, also addressed the meeting with the party's city unit president Liakat Ali Liku in the chair.
Menon said the BNP has attacked the values of Bangladesh's independence by providing shelter for people tainted by communalism and militancy.