The main opposition BNP said on Friday there was no alternative to a non-partisan interim administration to oversee the next general polls, believing it the only way to “save the democracy of the country.”
The party also warned that its programmes would not be postponed or softened until their demand of election under a non-partisan government was met.
“There is no alternative to holding elections under a non-partisan interim government to save the democracy and to get rid of the government’s repression and suppression. No other path is open,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, before a Gayebana Janaza in front of the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters on Friday.
The Janaza was held for the departed souls of those who were killed during the opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance’s 60-hour countrywide hartal. Fakhrul said the movement should move forward “vowing on the blood of the martyrs.”
The spokesperson of the party alleged the government had been destroying democracy and wanted to stay in power by repressing the opposition.
Earlier, at a programme at National Press Club,the party’s standing committee member Moudud Ahmed said a dialogue could take place to resolve the crisis but the movement would go on simultaneously.
“Action programmes will not be stopped or softened until the demand of election under a non-partisan government is met,” he said.
He claimed that the people of the country had taken to the streets spontaneously supporting the caretaker government demand. He also said the people were ready to “sacrifice everything” to oust the government from the office.
The former law minister alleged that the government had created the crisis intentionally and from the mentality of staying in office “forever.”
“Election under a non-partisan government is going on in Italy, Greece and Pakistan. So the government’s statement that no other country follows this system is not true,” he said.
The BNP leader reiterated that they would not take part in any election under a partisan government.