BNP Standing Committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday said that the prices of commodities had surpassed people’s purchasing power.
“The government has to step down if it fails to reduce the prices and if it cannot bring back democracy in the country immediately,” he said at a program in Comilla's Companiganj arranged on the first anniversary of death of former BNP minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed, reports Bangla Tribune.
"People will unitedly take different steps to seize this government of power. No autocratic government resigns itself; it has to be forced to resign," said Mosharraf, who is accused in a number of cases filed for corruption, money laundering and sedition.
The former minister added that the government had evicted Moudud from his house and filed multiple cases against him “out of political revenge” because he wrote 15 books that depict the reality of this country’s politics and democracy.
He claimed that the caretaker government in 2008 had put the Awami League in power; in 2014, the people boycotted them, and in 2018, they robbed the votes the night before election.
“The government is abducting, killing and filing false cases against BNP leaders in order to stay in power,” he said.
“The world has declared the government as a violator of human rights and one organization has been sanctioned because of this,” he said. "This blame has to be taken by the government, which has used different forces to stay in power."
BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo, former MP of Noakhali 5 Hasna Jasimuddin Moudud, and former opposition chief whip Zainul Abedin Farroque also spoke at this program as special guests.