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Quit now, people don't want to see you in power anymore

Fakhrul tells government


Wednesday, 19 July 2023


Describing their march demanding the resignation of the government as a 'victory march' for realising people's rights, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday called upon Awami League to quit as people don't want to see them in power anymore, reports UNB.
He alleged that the Election Commission staged a farce in the name of by-polls to Dhaka-17 on Monday.
"It's not just a march as it's a march of victory. It's a victory march for realising people's rights," the BNP leader said while inaugurating their party's road march in the capital's Gabtoli area.
He said they along with 36 other opposition parties have started a new journey for the restoration of democracy through the march programme. "We'll achieve victory through his journey by realising our one-point demand. We'll defeat this terrible monstrous regime and form a government and parliament of people."
Fakhrul said the people of entire Bangladesh have woken up to get back their lost rights and get rid of the misrule of the Awami League government.
He urged the government to step down and dissolve parliament by handing over power to a neutral government.
"Not only BNP but also 36 other political parties simultaneously announced on July 12 that the current regime must resign immediately. The people of this country no longer want to see Awami League in power," the BNP Secretary General said.
He called upon all the democratic political parties, organisations and professional bodies to take to the streets to protect the country and its people by ousting the Awami League regime.
About the by-polls to Dhaka-17, he said the ruling party could not take voters to the polling stations by installing a heavy-weight candidate and its main think-tank Mohammad Ali Arafat against Hero Alam.
"The polling stations were empty. The crippled, worthless and subservient Election Commission showed 11% voter turnout. We saw that there were no voters anywhere…after the announcement of the results, Arafat showed the victory sign. It's a matter of shame. Hero Alam, a non-political personality, was beaten and driven out of the polling station," Fakhrul said.
He criticised the silent role of police while a candidate was attacked by the ruling party activists in front of a polling station.