People can decide who will do politics: Hannan Shah
Monday, 24 March 2008
Ordinary people, not bureaucrats, can decide who will do politics and echoed demand for release of former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina before Independence Day.
The BNP chairperson's adviser ASM Hannan Shah said this while speaking at a views exchange meeting on 'The significance of Independence Day in present context' organised by the Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) at the National Press Club in the city Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
BJP president MA Matin presided over the meeting.
BJP acting secretary general Abu Naser Md Rahmat Ullah moderated the meeting.
Shah called upon the 'nationalist forces' to unite in the present situation of the country and expressed concern at the staggering rise in the prices of essentials.
"Though people don't want to return to the pre-1/11 situation they want the price regime that existed before 1/11 to return. The trend of the price spiral of essentials is not acceptable", he said.
The speakers at the meeting stressed building national consensus to restore democracy.
Jatiya Party (JP) Secretary General Sheikh Shahidul Islam urged Jamaat-e-Islami to ask the nation to pardon the party for their role in 1971.
Liberal Democratic Party leader Anwarul Kabir Talukder said: "Introduction of the caretaker government system was a suicidal decision for the politicians."
Jamaat-e-Islami city unit president Rafiqul Islam Khan said his family had participated in the Independence War.
"There was a camp of freedom fighters in our house. Probably I would have participated in the war of liberation. But then I was only two-and-half-year old."
Matin said the political leaders would have to unite to build up people's unity like the one on March 25, 1971. He questioned the neutrality of the chief election commissioner.
The BNP chairperson's adviser ASM Hannan Shah said this while speaking at a views exchange meeting on 'The significance of Independence Day in present context' organised by the Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) at the National Press Club in the city Sunday, reports bdnews24.com.
BJP president MA Matin presided over the meeting.
BJP acting secretary general Abu Naser Md Rahmat Ullah moderated the meeting.
Shah called upon the 'nationalist forces' to unite in the present situation of the country and expressed concern at the staggering rise in the prices of essentials.
"Though people don't want to return to the pre-1/11 situation they want the price regime that existed before 1/11 to return. The trend of the price spiral of essentials is not acceptable", he said.
The speakers at the meeting stressed building national consensus to restore democracy.
Jatiya Party (JP) Secretary General Sheikh Shahidul Islam urged Jamaat-e-Islami to ask the nation to pardon the party for their role in 1971.
Liberal Democratic Party leader Anwarul Kabir Talukder said: "Introduction of the caretaker government system was a suicidal decision for the politicians."
Jamaat-e-Islami city unit president Rafiqul Islam Khan said his family had participated in the Independence War.
"There was a camp of freedom fighters in our house. Probably I would have participated in the war of liberation. But then I was only two-and-half-year old."
Matin said the political leaders would have to unite to build up people's unity like the one on March 25, 1971. He questioned the neutrality of the chief election commissioner.