AL needs to be ousted from power, says Kamal
Jatiya Oikya Front top leader Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday urged the people to start street movement to oust the Awami League government from power.
He came up with the remark while addressing a protest meeting marking two years of imprisonment of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity in the capital.
He said that ruling quarters should see the history that people never allowed autocrats.
The country should be run by the real representatives of the people and it is the right of the people, he said.
‘But this unelected government now captured power and they are holding farce in the name of elections,’ Kamal said.
‘It is time to ask them to leave. People would no more allow them as they are trying to establish autocratic rule through corruption and torturing people,’ he said.
He said that it was frustrating in an independent country to demand release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia.
He found no reality in holding meetings indoors as it was time to stage street protests to realise the demands of opposition as well as common people.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president ASM Rob said that the government should release Khaleda Zia otherwise she would be released through the mass movement.
Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna said that the Jatiya Oikya Front and BNP should take decision about joint movement over release of Khaleda Zia and against the rampant corruption of the ruling Awami League.
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafarullah Chowdhury said that it would not be wise for BNP to contest elections any more until Khaleda Zia was not freed.
He suggested Kamal Hossain to file a review petition against the verdict against Khaleda, who is in jail following her conviction in a graft case on February 8, 2018.
Among others, BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan, Gono Forum executive president Subrata Chowdhury and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh faction chairman Nurul Amin Bepari spoke in the programme.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
