The BNP yesterday threatened to give a fitting reply if the government,
using unfair means, defeated the opposition alliance backed mayoral
candidates in Saturday’s polls to four city corporations.
“The surge of people favouring our [mayoral] candidates has begun. They are waiting to give their verdict against government-backed [mayoral] candidates. Realising this, the regime has planned to defeat our candidates by trickery,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Fakhrul and other top leaders of BNP were addressing a rally at the city’s Suhrawardy Udyan with Dhaka city BNP unit convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka in the chair.
“The city corporation polls will be an acid test for the government as well as the Election Commission,” said BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Mia.
He and other top BNP leaders vowed that they would launch a tougher movement to topple the government after Saturday, if the government applied any unfair “tactics” to defeat pro-opposition mayor aspirants in the elections to Barisal, Rajshahi, Khulna and Sylhet city corporations.
They alleged the government had forced some officials to go into retirement and it was rearranging the civil service to ensure their victory in the next general elections.
They called upon the government to ensure a level playing field for all parties. They also came down heavily on the Anti-terrorism (amendment) Bill, 2013, and demanded that the government cancel the bill immediately.
Former Dhaka city corporation mayor Khoka said, “… they [people] will not allow any national polls with Sheikh Hasina as chief of the election-time government.”
It was the first rally in the city of any political party since the May 5 mayhem centring the Hefajat-e Islam rally.
BNP had sought permission to hold the rally in front of its Nayapaltan office to protest the warrant of arrest issued against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and demanding restoration of the election-time non-party caretaker government system.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Police at the eleventh hour gave them permission to hold the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan.
“The surge of people favouring our [mayoral] candidates has begun. They are waiting to give their verdict against government-backed [mayoral] candidates. Realising this, the regime has planned to defeat our candidates by trickery,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
Fakhrul and other top leaders of BNP were addressing a rally at the city’s Suhrawardy Udyan with Dhaka city BNP unit convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka in the chair.
“The city corporation polls will be an acid test for the government as well as the Election Commission,” said BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Mia.
He and other top BNP leaders vowed that they would launch a tougher movement to topple the government after Saturday, if the government applied any unfair “tactics” to defeat pro-opposition mayor aspirants in the elections to Barisal, Rajshahi, Khulna and Sylhet city corporations.
They alleged the government had forced some officials to go into retirement and it was rearranging the civil service to ensure their victory in the next general elections.
They called upon the government to ensure a level playing field for all parties. They also came down heavily on the Anti-terrorism (amendment) Bill, 2013, and demanded that the government cancel the bill immediately.
Former Dhaka city corporation mayor Khoka said, “… they [people] will not allow any national polls with Sheikh Hasina as chief of the election-time government.”
It was the first rally in the city of any political party since the May 5 mayhem centring the Hefajat-e Islam rally.
BNP had sought permission to hold the rally in front of its Nayapaltan office to protest the warrant of arrest issued against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and demanding restoration of the election-time non-party caretaker government system.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Police at the eleventh hour gave them permission to hold the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan.
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