The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday said that the ruling Awami League’s move to ‘score goals’ on an empty field would backfire as it would not get a walkover this time.
‘There is nothing much to say, only one thing. This government should step down. This time we must win,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a discussion in Dhaka.
Uttaranchal Student Forum and Bangladesh Student Forum organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters Unity, marking the 16th anniversary of BNP acting chairman Traique Rahman’s release from jail.
Referring to the movement to restore the caretaker government as the Second Liberation War, he said, ‘We are fighting to overthrow the fascists; we are fighting to restore democracy. This government has ruined and destroyed all the achievements of freedom. They have destroyed the soul of the country.’
Fakhrul said that this government had targeted those who spoke against them and protested. They were arrested and put in jail. But they cannot stop people’s movement.
‘We have to win this movement. There is no alternative but to bring them down by movement,’ he said.
Addressing the party activists, he said, let’s take an oath and move forward. There is no other option.
At the programme, BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said that everyone was now looking forward to being a lawmaker and minister, but how many wanted to save the country?
‘We did not have so many leaders in the anti-autocrat movement, but we still managed to win. Now there are more leaders, but no activists. I don’t see students in the movement,’ he added.
Gayeshwar said that no matter how hard Sheikh Hasina tried, she would not be able to win the election alone.
