The main opposition BNP yesterday said the government would have to take the responsibility if any unconstitutional force assumed office.
The opposition’s remark came just a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had urged people to stay alert so that no such force could capture state power.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said: “We do not know why the prime minister is repeatedly speaking about any unconstitutional force taking power.
“It is this government that has to shoulder the responsibility if such force grabs power.”
Fakhrul was speaking to reporters after he along with new Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan had placed wreaths at the grave of party founder Ziaur Rahman.
Fakhrul said the present prime minister had assumed office through an election held under a non-partisan caretaker government. Three more elections had been held in a free and fair manner under such administrations. “But now the government is not paying any heed to people’s demand.”
He warned that the opposition would wage a tough movement to materialise its demand for non-partisan interim government if the present government stuck to its stand of holding the next polls under its arrangement.
Expressing grievances over the arrest of rights activist Adilur Rahman, Fakhrul said: “Sending a rights activist on police remand is an expression of this government’s undemocratic attitude."
