Khaleda calls for politics of national unity [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

Khaleda calls for politics of national unity

Local September 02, 2015

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday called for a national unity and said that her party would carry out politics of national unity, not politics of vengeance, for the welfare of people and a prosperous country.
Addressing a discussion at Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh in the capital organised by BNP to mark its 37th founding anniversary, Khaleda said that BNP would not take any revenge on anyone if her party was voted to power.
BNP celebrated its 37th founding anniversary across the country amidst allegations of obstructions to observance programmes in many places by the law enforcers and the ruling Awami League.
Late president Ziaur Rahman established BNP on September 1, 1978.
Khaleda said that the two major parties in the country – the BNP and the Awami League – would come to power by turns; none should fear any revenge and BNP did not believe in politics of vengeance.
‘Let us do politics of national unity and politics of development for the welfare of people and a prosperous country,’ she said.
She said that BNP’s expectations and demands on in founding anniversary were a free, fair and inclusive election under a non-party neutral government whatever that might be called and formation of a new Election Commission with neutral people cancelling the incumbent commission.
She said that the country could not be run and democracy could not be established by the police.
She reiterated that there was no democracy, rule of law, independence of judiciary, human rights and freedom of speech and press.
In her about one-hour speech, Khaleda described various misdeeds, crimes, repression, killing, enforced disappearance and misrule of the government.
She also came down hard on the partners of Awami League-led alliance indicating a faction of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal led by Hasnul Haq Inu, for their recent remarks against BNP and herself.
She said that they (JSD) leaders were involved in various crimes and killings after the independence. She termed those parties as parasites saying Awami League had stepped aside from its politics.
Khaleda, also former prime minister, said that the government had frightened the law enforcers, civil and military administration saying that they would be sacked if the BNP assumed power.
The BNP chief assured that those people in civil and military administration would not lose their jobs as they had acted being ordered by the government and the prime minister and her cabinet must take the responsibility.
She criticised the government for increasing the prices of power and gas for providing subsidy to quick rental power plants for the benefit of the private owners of the power plants at the cost of people’s money.
BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, ASM Hannan Shah, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Mahbub Uddin Khokon addressed the discussion conducted by the party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon.
Earlier, Khaleda Zia along with her party leaders and activists placed floral wreaths and offered fateha at graveside of Ziaur Rahman, founder of BNP, at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the city at about 11:15.
A large number of leaders and activists of BNP and its front and associate organisations and supporters thronged the graveside.