DHAKA, Nov 12, 2020 (BSS) – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP has participated in elections to make those questionable and it is reflected in their words.
“…the way they (BNP leaders) have been walking, the way people have been burned to death in the past to foil elections, and failing to halt polls, they continued ill-efforts to make elections questionable, which were rejected by the country’s people,” he said.
Dr Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary, said this while speaking at a discussion through videoconferencing from his official residence here, a ministry press release said.
The discussion was arranged at Jatiya Press Club on the occasion of Shaheed Noor Hossain Day.
Speaking as the chief guest, he said the BNP also tried to make today’s election questionable, which was rejected by people too.
Stressing the need for a strong opposition party in the country, the information minister said if there was a strong opposition party, democracy would have strengthened.
“But it is true that BNP could not resolve its internal disputes and it could not be strengthened too,” he added.
If BNP does not shun its politics of conspiracy and killing people with patrol booms, the AL joint general secretary said, it will not get any chance to hold public support.
Noting that by-elections were held in Dhaka South and Sirajganj today, he said due to the unprecedented development that took place in the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the last one decade, the popularity of Sheikh Hasina as well as the Awami League increased.
Asking BNP to take lessons from the recent US election, Hasan said despite sensing its defeat in today’s elections, BNP took part in the polls to make those questionable.
Paying deep respect to Shaheed Noor Hossain, he said Noor Hossain has left his living poster by sacrificing his life.
The democracy had been repeatedly chained in Bangladesh and it was released in exchange of the bloods of Noor Hossain and many others under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, the information minister said.
He said the living poster of Noor Hossain in the democratic movements would remain alive in the country’s history and his name would always be written in blood in the history of democracy.
Chaired by freedom fighter and advisor of Bangladesh Swadhinata Parishad Akram Hossain, the discussion was addressed, among others, by president of Dhaka City South unit of Awami League Abu Ahmed Mannafi, Shaheed Noor Hossain’s brother and Awami Motor Drivers League president Ali Hossain, AL leaders advocate Balram Poddar and MA Karim, general secretary of Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote Arun Sarkar Rana and former student leader Manik Lal Ghosh.