Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to the main opposition party to join the all-party poll-time government so that no confusion arises about the fairness of the next election.
Saying that her invitation in this regard is still open, the Prime Minister said: "I have invited all to join the poll-time government as we have no intention to rig the vote, which we have been proven over the last five years in all local and national elections."
She said this while inaugurating the newly constructed building of the Dhaka Bar Association and laying the foundation stone for the Chief Judicial Magistrate Building on Dhaka Court premises.
"The country's democratic process was disrupted most of the time during transfer of power after 1975. Taking the advantage, un-elected and undemocratic forces have usurped power ever since, depriving people from their democratic rights and nation's development.”
The Prime Minister said her party has no intension to snatch away the people’s voting rights. "We want to begin a journey to lay foundation of an uninterrupted democratic system for all future generations," she added.
Sheikh Hasina said, Awami League have always fought to protect the voting rights of the people and over the years the party has proven its commitment in all polls including the five recent city corporation elections.
President of Dhaka Bar Association Qazi Mohammad Nazibullah Hiru presided over the function. Former minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister Quamrul Islam, Dr. Mostafa Jalal Mohiuuddin, MP, Secretary of the law ministry Abu Saleh M Zahirul Haq, Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Zahirul Haque, Chief Judicial Magistrate Ismail Hossain Palash and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha, addressed, the function, among others.
