Alleging that the Awami League-led government wanted to stay in power “forcibly,” BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked it to initiate dialogue for holding a fresh election immediately.
She also announced that after the completion of the upazila polls, she would visit different districts across the country.
“Come to dialogue leaving the gun. The consequences will be dire if you think you can stay in office killing people. If you want to stay in power forcefully, people will be compelled to take to the street,” she said while addressing a group of Thakurgaon Jatiya Party activists who joined the BNP at her Gulshan office.
Khaleda asked them to work together to ensure victory of the party-backed candidates in the upazila elections.
She said the only way out of the “current crisis” was an election. “People did not vote in the January 5 election. The people of the country as well as the whole world are talking about an inclusive election.”
The former premier claimed that the opposition men had been “killed and abducted” and human rights was violated in every step.
Khaleda alleged that the ruling party-backed candidates had won in some upazilas forcefully.
The BNP-supported candidates would have won in more upazilas if their agents had not been evicted from the polling centres.
She said: “Now I will visit Thakurgaon and hold a rally there. This way, I will visit all the districts.”
