Boycott AL to save democracy Khaleda urges people, denounces current JS and laws passed by it Prabir Barua Chowdhury, from Comilla , #BDIreport BNP chief Khaleda Zia delivers her speech at a rally of the 20-party alliance on the Town Hall ground in Comilla yesterday. Photo: Star BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged people to boycott the Awami League-led “autocratic” government to restore democracy in the country. “A change has already begun. The people can now feel the wind of change -- change for building the country, creating employment for the youth and finally for the development of the nation,” Khaleda said while addressing a huge rally at Comilla Town Hall. This was her ninth rally outside the capital after the January 5 one-sided and controversial election to drum up support for a fresh election under a non-party administration. Pointing to a number of cases filed against her and her party men during the last caretaker government in 2007, Khaleda alleged that Sheikh Hasina had 15 cases against her, including those filed in connection with the purchase of Mig-29 and a frigate, withdrawn after she took office in 2009. As many as 8,000 other cases against AL men were also withdrawn but the cases against BNP men went into trial. The HC in 2012 quashed all proceedings against Hasina in the Mig-29 warplanes purchase case and the frigate purchase corruption case filed during the last BNP-Jamaat alliance government. The former premier said Hasina should be punished in the cases. “Face those cases against you [Hasina] at a neutral court if you have the courage.” The BNP chief continued that though the government was trying its best to stay in power by killing people, it would fail eventually. Urging people to join the upcoming anti-government movement by the BNP-led opposition, Khaleda said she would take to the streets to see how the police could shoot at people. She asked policemen to stop firing on innocents. The BNP-led 20-party opposition will go for a tougher movement to oust the government, Khaleda said, adding that in doing so all had to be united. She said she had no desire to assume power and that her only aim was to fight to bring back democracy in the country. Lambasting the police force, Khaleda urged the international community not to give it any bullet, tear shell and training as, she said, police members were killing innocent people. She also urged the United Nations not to take police members from Bangladesh for its peacekeeping missions. Accusing the Rapid Action Battalion of abducting and killing people, she said that to stop all secret killings, it is necessary to bring Rab Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan to book. He should be grilled to find out the masterminds behind the secret killings. Referring to the laws, including the broadcast policy and the one restoring parliaments authority to remove High Court judges, recently passed by the government, she said the House had become the house of this party. Every law enacted by this government will be cancelled, “if we come to power because the present government as well as the parliament is illegal.” Talking about the Anti-Corruption Commission, she said it was not working to contain corruption. Instead, it has become an organisation designated to clear corrupt Awami League leaders of all the charges against them. Pointing to recent remarks made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas Adviser HT Imam about the latest national polls, the BNP chief said that following his comments, the government had no right to stay in power. At a recent discussion at Dhaka University, Imam said many pro-AL officials had been inducted into mobile courts to help the government hold the January 5 election when the BNP-Jamaat alliance tried to thwart it. They [pro-AL officials] stood by us.”
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:35:44 +0000
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