'It's time to form 3rd political party',Dhaka Bangladesh

BANGLADESH NEWS

Two major political parties – Awami League and BNP – have failed to fulfil people's aspiration in the last 40 years, therefore time has come to form a third political party with honest, patriotic and visionary persons, Nagorik Oikya and civil society leaders observed on Saturday.

Speaking at a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club, they said people are fade up with the wrong leadership of Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, chiefs of BNP and AL, as they do not practice democracy in their respective parties.

“People don’t have trust in the two top leaders of our country as they do not think country’s welfare in real. People still cast their votes either for BNP or for AL as they don’t have any alternative. People is eagerly waiting for an alternative political party to come and save them from the present misrule of the two parties in turn,” said M Hafizuddin Khan, former adviser to a caretaker government.

Blasting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and AL President Sheikh Hasina, he said of the two top leaders, one is known as "gonotontrer manoskonna" while the others as "ganotontrer agnikonna". Both are shouting for democracy but they do not practice democracy within their parties.

Khan added since restoration of democracy in1991, people had been waiting for a change in politics, but nothing has changed.

“Awami League in its electoral manifesto pledged for charter of change but it is acting the opposite in real. Both the parties have similarity in one thing. When they come to power, they make partisan in every sector. People want to get rid of the situation,” he added.

Former president of Narayanganj district AL SM Akram said, "We all should do something to save people from the autocratic rule of the two parties by turn."

A former bureaucrat and former AL lawmaker, Akram also said, "If BNP comes to power, we will not be able to live in this country. Same thing will happen if Awami League again comes to power in the next polls. That’s why we need do create some alternative platform for people."

Akram who acted as the main architect behind victory of Selina Hayat Ivy in the Narayanganj City Corporation polls in 2011 ignoring AL high command's directive, resigned from the party the following day of Ivy’s victory.

He said except Bangabandhu, no top leader of the two major parties has patriotism in them as they only aim to go to power and make money.