The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Thursday that the fall of the Awami League government would be ensured through street movement.
‘We have courage. With that force, we will defeat all the weapons of the dictatorial government through movement,’ BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan said at a discussion.
The party organised the discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking the 88th birth anniversary of the party’s founder, Ziaur Rahman.
BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman chaired the event.
Moyeen Khan said that the democracy that the late president Ziaur Rahman gave is dead today.
‘On the night of March 25, Ziaur Rahman resisted the attack of the Pakistani invasion forces on the 70 million people of Bangladesh. On that day, no one in the current government protested or resisted. They fled to neighbouring countries,’ he said.
Addressing the leaders and activists of the party, he said that each of you should cherish the ideals of president Ziaur Rahman. Only then you will be able to return people to their full rights.
‘The struggle to establish human rights in the world is not easy. We must continue to fight for it. All the weapons of a dictatorial government will be defeated by the movement,’ he said.
‘We do politics to serve the people. We have told the people of this country that we have not come to politics for power. We do politics for people’s rights,’ he said.
Claiming that the BNP is a party of decent people, he said that through peaceful movements, the BNP would bring down the government with unarmed people and restore democracy.
Addressing the programme, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said that the BNP had nothing to be ashamed of.
‘But there is much to be proud of. Victory will come to us,’ he said.
BNP standing committee member Selima Rahman said that those who are still in the midst of hundreds of atrocities are soldiers of Zia’s ideology.
‘No one could stop them. If Ziaur Rahman had not been born, this country would not have gained independence. From a bottomless basket, this country was self-sufficient in food under his leadership,’ he said.
Among others, BNP vice chairmen Abdul Awal Mintoo, Nitai Roy Chowdhury, and AZM Zahid Hossain, adviser to BNP chairperson Zainul Abdin Farroque, joint office secretary Taiful Islam Tipu, and Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal president Afroza Abbas spoke on the programme.
