By Mizan Rahman
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The ruling Awami League and its ally Jatiya Party (JP) yesterday continued their virulent attack on the country’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Jatiya Party Chairman and former president H M Ershad urged the leaders and workers of BNP to join his party if they wished to remain relevant in politics.
He said the BNP, led by three-time prime minister Khaleda Zia, has no capacity to wage an anti-government movement as it has lost the people’s confidence due to its policies when it was in power.
The people don’t want to see the BNP in power any more as the party plundered public money.
“Tarique Zia had created many terrorist godfathers along with establishing the rule of killing, kidnapping and looting,” he alleged, referring to Khaleda’s eldest son now living in London.
Ershad was addressing the biannual council meeting of Rajshahi city unit of JP.
He said the people want peace and stability and the JP is the only means of restoring peace across the country. He said his party will return to power to serve the nation.
He urged the party leaders and workers to sink their differences and internal conflicts.
“You have to earn people’s confidence and love.”
The former military strongman urged the government to supply adequate relief materials to the flood-affected people.
Meanwhile, as BNP observed its founding anniversary, Awami
League leader Hasan Mahmud said that Khaleda’s party was now on life support.
“The BNP has no activity as it is now on life support. It couldn’t come out from the life support despite several attempts,” he said.
Claiming that democracy in Bangladesh is now well established under Sheikh Hasina’s leadership, Mahmud said the controversial broadcast policy is not a law. “Nothing can run properly without a policy. The freedom as well as accountability of the mass media will be ensured through the policy.”
However, the BNP hit back with its spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir saying it was the country, not his party, that was facing the most critical time of its history.
“The BNP is now a stronger party than any time in the past. We’re not in any crisis…it’s in fact the country that is passing through the worst critical time of its history,” he said.
