Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded cancellation of Union Parishads (UPs) formed during the ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina’s regime.
The demand was placed following the decision taken in a meeting of the party’s highest policymaking forum National Standing Committee on Monday, said a press release today signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman chaired the meeting at the party chairperson’s Gulshan political office here joining it virtually from London.
The release said it will not be possible to hold a free, fair and impartial national election keeping functional the Union Parishads formed through farce during the fascist Sheikh Hasina’s regime. Because, the present Union Parishads was used as the weapon of the autocratic regime in the past and it may be in the future too.
In another decision, the BNP standing committee expressed deep concern over the conflicts in the districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs).
It was said in the meeting that such conflicts are being unleashed as part of the longstanding conspiracy to disestablish the interim government following the ouster of the fascist Sheikh Hasina’s regime which is completely politically motivated, said the release.
These incidents are threat to the country’s independence and sovereignty. There is no scope to take the incident lightly, it said.
The BNP standing committee underscored the need for urgently calling a national convention with the participation of the country’s key political parties, concerned leaders of CHT districts and the stakeholders.
The committee urged the government to take measures to this end.