After having missed the “intercity train,” the BNP was now trying to board the “local train,” Awami League leader Hasan Mahmud has said.
By intercity train, he meant the national election and the local train was used to refer to the upcoming upazila elections.
The BNP has recently hinted that it might take part in the upazila parishad elections, slated for later this year, in a bid to rejuvenate its grassroots.
Addressing a press conference at the Awami League president’s Dhanmondi office, Hasan Mahmud, the publicity and publication secretary of the party, said: “Earlier the BNP raised questions about the credibility of the Election Commission. But now it has decided to take part in the upazila parishad elections under the same commission. I thank BNP for the good sense.”
Mahmud said Jamaat-e-Islami’s absence at the recent Suhrawardy Udyan rally was just a window dressing; the real scenario was exposed when BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the party was going to maintain its alliance with Jamaat.
“BNP’s ties with Jamaat is like that between fish and water... BNP will not survive without Jamaat.” the former environment and forest minister said.