Resist one party-rule through movement: Kh Mosharraf

Awami League’s effort to enforce a one-party rule in Bangladesh should be resisted through a movement, BNP leader Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has said. Speaking at a discussion on Saturday he said, “Awami League held the voter-less election, like the way a monkey greeds over a pie. There was no trace of the Opposition in it." The discussion, organised to mark BNP founder Ziaur Rahman's birthday, was attended by top leaders of the party who had gone into hiding to avoid arrest before the election. “They have killed democracy and swallowed the whole country into a one-party rule.” “We have to start a campaign to rescue democracy from the clutches of Bakshal,” he said. About the party’s long standing demand for polls under neutral government Mosharraf said, “Some people are saying that our movement was wrong.” “We would say that 95 per cent of Bangladesh responded to Khaleda Zia's call to make our movement a success. They did not go to vote on January 5.” BNP leaders Abdul Moin Khan, Osman Farruk and Zainul Abdin Farooque also spoke during the discussion, according to a news agency.