BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the upcoming national election has become entangled in a so-called “minimum-maximum” reform agenda, claiming that the delay in the electoral process reflects a hidden motive by certain individuals within and outside the interim government.
The BNP acting chairman said this while addressing a mammoth youth rally in front of the party’s Naya Paltan central office in the capital through a virtual platform in the afternoon.
“It seems that dilly-dallying over holding the next national election has already started or is underway. The future of the election has got trapped in a cycle of innovative conditions of so-called minimum reform and maximum reforms,” he said.
He said people have begun to believe that certain individuals, both within and outside the interim government, may have a hidden agenda behind the façade of stalling for time in the name of reform.
Jatiotabadi Jubo Dal, Swechhasebak Dal and Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) jointly arranged the function, presided over by Jubo Dal President Abdul Monayem Munna.
Tens of thousands of people joined the rally arranged for youths from Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sylhet and Faridpur districts, commemorating the martyrdom month of BNP founder and late president Ziaur Rahman.
BNP Standing Committee members Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Salahuddin Ahmed, Swechhasebak Dal President SM Jilani and JCD President Rakibul Islam Rakib spoke at the rally.
