Dialogue and national election would be held before the tenure of the incumbent government, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said.
Fakhrul came up with the statement at a programme titled “Meet the Reporters’’ organised by Dhaka Reporters’ Unity in the capital on Wednesday.
“People never accepted any misdeeds and will not accept it in the future either. People did not participate in the January 5 election. The democratic world also did not support the election. Everybody hopes participatory and credible election will take place before 2019.”
Responding to a query, the BNP leader said: “It is not possible to topple the government by fixing any time frame. We believe the sooner the people organise and take to the street, the sooner the government will be compelled to resign from the office.”
He also said the BNP does not believe in any trump card.
The party spokesperson said: “Awami League leaders have said dialogue would not take place but they will have to sit for talks. They have said BNP has to cut its ties with Jamaat for holding talks but the Awami League held talks with BNP when Jamaat was with the party.”
“So dialogue will take place in time,” he added.
Fakhrul said BNP does not want to wage any movement rather wants to resolve the crisis through talks.
He said dialogue took place when the special envoy of the United Nations mediated it and at that time Awami League said fresh election would be given soon after holding talks.
Regarding the party’s ongoing movement, Fakhrul said: “When you drive a car, you first go through the first gear then the second gear and then gradually the top gear. It is the science of movement. BNP’s movement would be intensified gradually.”
DRU President Sahed Chowdhury and General Secretary Ilyas Khan and other leaders of the organisation were present in the programme.