Govt starts bowing down, says BNP

Claiming that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark that a democratic government can hold an election anytime as an indication for snap polls, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the government has started conceding to their demand. ‘The Prime Minister yesterday (Thursday) told her press conference that a democratic government can arrange elections anytime. We think, she with the comment, apparently accepted people’s demand for an early election. The government has started bowing down to the mass demand,’ Mirza Alamgir, the acting secretary general of the BNP, said while addressing a press briefing arranged at BNP’s Naya Paltan central office after a joint meeting of the party. On Thursday, PM Hasina addressing a press conference on her recent UAE tour said as per the parliamentary democratic system, any government has the right to call election anytime, and it can be before the expiry of its tenure or on completion of that, according to a news agency.