Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party) staged a protest rally showing red cards to the new parliament in Capital’s Bijoy Nagar on Tuesday.
The party leader termed this parliamentary session unrepresentative of the nation.
AB Party Convener AFM Solaiman Chowdhury said: “We are calling upon the nation to boycott each of those vote robbers for a simple reason; they are not elected by the people. Everyone who took the oath to become a so-called MP would be charged with sedition one day for breaching the Constitution.”
Member Secretary Mojibur Rahman Monju said: “The ruling party has essentially been an autocratic entity under the disguise of democracy, like a wolf in sheep’s clothes.”
“We reject this 5% farcical parliament. We strongly condemn the brief detention of Dr Moyeen Khan along with other opposition protesters in Dhaka and across the country,” he added.
Joint Member Secretary Asaduzzaman Fuaad said: “January 30 marks the day when Zahir Raihan, a prominent film-maker and freedom fighter, was the first victim of the enforced disappearance of independent Bangladesh in 1972, when the ruling party was in power.
“He was supposed to have a press conference on that day to expose the real culprits involved in the enforced disappearance of his elder brother, Shahidullah Kaiser. Also, he threatened to disclose the mischievous activities of Awami League leaders in Calcutta with evidence under the pretext of the liberation war,” he said.
This parliament is not the people's chamber but of vote robbers and oligarchs; we, along with the nation, rejected them, he added.
