BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Monday urged people to unite to defeat the Awami League in the next general elections by even a bigger margin than in the recent city corporation polls.
“The government has alienated itself from the people. In the five city corporation polls, people scored five goals into the government’s post. We have to defeat them by more goals in the next election,” she said.
Khaleda was speaking to the newly elected mayor of Khulna City Corporation, Moniruzzaman Monir, and the ward councillors, who had come to meet the opposition leader at her Gulshan office.
The BNP chief asked her party activists to make all-out preparations for intensifying the ongoing movement to compel the government to hold the next parliamentary elections under a non-partisan interim government.
The former premier urged the government to realise people’s pulse and accept their demand.
On Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed’s claim that Gazipur was his party’s stronghold like Gopalganj, Khaleda said: “People have shown them [the Awami League] the red card [in Gazipur City Corporation polls]. It is understandable what will happen in Gopanganj.”
Narrating her plans if she can assume office, Khaleda said: “We will change the looks of the country through massive development work. We will construct two bridges over the Padma, removing the stigma of Padma bridge scandal.
“The government has been propagating that militancy would rise if the BNP comes to power. But it was them who branded alems and ulemas as militants. It is not true that Muslims are militants. Our position is clear: there is no militancy in the country.”