BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said their party will not join any talks on the next parliamentary polls until the Awami League government quits power.
“I think there will be no talks until the Awami League government resigns,” he told a press conference at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office.
The BNP leader came up with the remarks as journalists drew his attention to a reported decision of the Awami League Central Working Committee to make all-out efforts to bring BNP to the next parliamentary election.
Mirza Fakhrul renewed their party’s stance that BNP will not join the next polls under the current government.
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“Our position on the next polls is clear. There is no question of holding an election if the Awami League regime does not resign and power is handed over to a completely neutral government. We won’t go to the polls if Sheikh Hasina remains in power,” he claimed.
Fakhrul said the government must meet two conditions to bring BNP to the next polls. "The first condition is that the government must resign and hand over power to a neutral government.”
He said a non-party neutral government will reconstitute the Election Commission for conducting the polls based on public opinions and thus a government and parliament will be formed representing the country's people.
When asked about his comment on Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s comment regarding the opposition parties being given a scope to hold meetings and rallies, Fakhrul said Awami League is a party of frauds. "They are used to talking like that…but they will do whatever they need to do.”
