Democracy not safe yet, says Khaleda

Accusing the government of shackling nation with a one-party rule, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Friday said democracy established in the country through the sacrifices of the blood of hundreds of martyrs is not safe yet.
In a message, she said, “Our democracy has got stumbled again and again on its march forward…the democracy established at the blood of hundreds of martyrs is not yet out of danger.”
Khaleda, also a former Prime Minister, issued the message on the occasion of Fall of Autocracy Day, commemorating military ruler HM Ershad’s bowing out in the face of a mass upheaval on December 6, 1990.
She alleged that the true colour of the cruel and despotic one-party rule is exposing gradually with the changing attitude of current regime.
“People’s rights and independence have been put at stake once again by changing the nation with the one-party cruel rule through holding the January-5 unilateral election.”
Khaleda claimed that the party having the spirit of one-party Baksal rule together with the autocrat who had annihilated democracy in the 80s have destroyed all the democratic institutions, according to a news agency.