Main opposition BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed on Thursday warned the government that the consequences of considering any alternative to a polls-time non-partisan government would be dire.
“The next election should be held under a non-partisan government. If the government is thinking of any alternatives, it will become the worst victim of their misdeeds and misrule over the last five years,” he said.
He was addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital organised in protest of shutting down the private television channels Diganta Television and Islamic Television.
Regarding the prevailing political standoff, Moudud said many are concerned over the future of the next polls.
“We think that the government has no other option except holding polls and that election should not be held under partisan government.”
Moudud criticised the government for 15th amendment to the constitution saying: “The government is daydreaming to stay in power by holding elections under its arrangement as it has become detached from the people of the country. We want to say clearly, this daydreams will become nightmares. The government will have to accept our demand in the face of a tough movement.”
Criticising the government for “imposing censorship” on the media, Moudud, also a former law minister, said: “The government has shut down the Daily Amar Desh and two private television channels in its four and half years in the office.”
The BNP leader claimed the people of the country want to see change in the office and it became clear in the last five city corporation polls.
Krishak Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddique, Kallayan Party chairman Syed Muhammad Ibrahim and other leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance expressed solidarity with the protest programme.
