BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday said no person should be the prime minister for more than two consecutive terms in the country.
“I personally think that a person should in no way be the prime minister at least for more than two consecutive terms,” he said while replying to a question from a student at a workshop held in BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.
Tarique Rahman, who joined the event through a virtual platform, said he firmly believes that it is not possible for an individual to work sincerely after a maximum of 10 years as the person might be physically and mentally exhausted.
In reply to another question, the BNP acting chairman said if BNP comes to power, it would not keep the provision of using symbols of political parties in the local body elections.
Addressing the workshop, he spelled out his party’s thoughts and plans over the reform of the country’s structures and development of different sectors, including education, healthcare, agricultural, financial, environment, water and the commodity supply chain.
Tarique put emphasis on the establishment of the political and economic rights of the people in the country. “If we can’t establish the political rights and economic rights of the people simultaneously, there’ll be no use of any reform, no matter how much we talk about reform,” he said.
The BNP leader said the political rights and economic independence of people must be established at any cost. “If so we’ll be able to implement all reform programmes gradually.”
About corruption, Tarique said the nation should be taken out of the culture of corruption. “We’ll have to curb corruption at anyhow and take the nation and the country out of it.”
He said there was a law during the last BNP’s regime that ACC won’t require to take any permission from the government to conduct an investigation against anyone. The ACC was independent.
But the previous autocratic government changed this law and incorporated a provision to take prior permission from the government to carry out investigation against any government official or employee, he said.
