BNP calls for fresh JS polls in six months

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders on Wednesday called for fresh parliamentary polls under a neutral government within the next six months cancelling the new parliament formed through ‘fake vote’.
They made the demand addressing a human chain in the capital, hours before the 11th parliament went into its maiden session around 3:00pm.
BNP organised the human chain in front of National Press Club to protest at the 11th parliament of what they called ‘fake vote’.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir led the one-hour human chain from around 11:00am. 
BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed said only five to seven per cent voters were able to go to the polling centres in the December 30 parliamentary polls.
Moudud, a former law minister, said they would publish information-based white paper of the polls marked by widespread vote ‘fraudulence’.
Demanding resignation of the incumbent government and cancelling the parliament, he asked the party leaders and activities for launching a united movement to force the government to hold a fresh election within three to six months.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul called upon all, irrespective of party and opinion, to get united for a new election under a neutral government.
BNP secretary general Fakhrul said the ruling Awami League like the 1975 style destroying all democratic institutions snatching away peoples’ rights using state machinery and committing ‘state terrorism’.
He termed the December 30 polls ‘fake’.
BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said no election took place on December 30, alleging that the government and Election Commission through conspiracy announced the names of so-called MPs and the current parliament was totally ‘illegal’ and had no relation with people. 
‘This parliament is a parliament of robbery and a stigma for democratic countries of the world,’ he said.
Mosharraf said the party leaders and activists must free BNP’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia for launching a movement under her leadership for holding neutral polls.
Another standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan said those representing the 11th parliament were not representatives of people.
They are representatives of ‘fake vote’, he said.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net