The BNP has alleged that greed for power has prompted the government to move for a so-called all-party government to stage a unilateral election.
Except the ruling Awami League, none of its allies in the 14-party combine having representation in parliament, will join the election-time government as designed by the prime minister, it said.
“So it cannot be called an all-party government. Fourteen parties and probably Anwar Hossain Manju will be there, and he has no representation in parliament,” said Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the party.
“We want to say, except Awami League, all the parties which have representation in parliament are in favour of election under a non-partisan government,” he said at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters on the second day of the opposition alliance’s 60-hour countrywide hartal.
Fakhrul claimed that a leader of its Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal had been killed and more than 600 leaders and activists of the BNP injured on the second day of the shutdown.
He reiterated the party’s stance against participating in any sort of all-party government and also in any unilateral election. “The government is creating anarchy centring hartal. The ruling Awami League cadres along with the law enforcers created a confrontational situation in the country.”
He also accused the ruling party men of attacking the Hindus in Pabna. “As part of the government’s conspiracy, the incident took place in Pabna to destroy communal harmony. We harshly condemned such incident.”
