PM’s call for national unity was phoney: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for national unity was just words for words’ sake and she was not committed to resolve political disputes at all. 
‘There is no reason for people to accept her call for national unity,’ he said while talking to reporters at BNP’s central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.
Fakhrul said they found no reason to accept the prime minister’s call for the BNP’s MPs-elect to join the parliament.
‘Taking oath and joining the house by the MPs-elect of BNP and its ally Gono Forum are out of question as we have rejected the results of the 11th nationla elections,’ he said responding to a question. 
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina called for national unity during her maiden speech to the nation on Friday after winning the elections. She also urged the opposition MPs-elect to take oath and join the parliament.
The first session of the parliament will begin on January 30.
Recalling the opposition leaders’ dialogue with the prime minister before the latest national elections, Fakhrul said the prime minister did not keep any word given to BNP-dominated opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front.
She (prime minister) assured that no arrest or implication would be taken place and a level playing field would be ensured before elections, but nothing was done, he alleged.
Fakhrul said he listened to the prime minister’s address to the nation.
It seemed that she made the statements from a ‘guilty of conscience’ and probably she had got it that what she did (electoral fraud) was not right, said Fakhrul. 
BNP got only six seats and Gono Forum secured two seats in the parliament while Awami League-led alliance won 288 seats out of a total 300 seats in recent national polls marred by ‘flaws’ and ‘fraud’.

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