BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has cleared that her party has no organisational strength to wage any movement against the incumbent government, joint general secretary of the ruling Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif has said.
"BNP-Jamaat alliance now searching for some solace to achieve something by taking part in the ensuing municipal polls after failing their so-called movements," he said.
Hanif said this while speaking at a press conference at the political office of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in the capital, BSS reports
The ruling Awami League convened the press conference to give reply to the recent statements of Begum Khaleda Zia.
Exchanging pleasantries with leaders of the Christian community on the holy occasion of the Christmas at her Gulshan office on Sunday night, Begum Khaleda Zia said, "The government should be hit not through movement but through polls."
The Awami League joint general secretary said, "I strongly believe that people of the country would ensure her defeat in the municipality polls to shatter her desire to hit the government through movement like they thwarted her movements in the past."
In reply to Begum Zia's comment that people of any faith are not safe during Awami League's rule, Hanif posed a counter question pointing at Begum Zia asking whether she repents for atrocities and repression let loose on the people during her rule from 2001 to 2006 and whether she would seek apology to the nation for her anti-people activities.
Awami League joint general secretary Dr Dipu Moni, organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain, AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, publicity secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud, health and population affairs secretary Dr Badiuzzaman Bhuiyan Dublew, labour affairs secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj and office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap were present among others.