Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president ASM Abdur Rab said on Friday that Bangladesh was not a monarchy, so there was no need to pre-determine who would be the king after whose death or who would inherit the state power.
鈥楾he behaviour of the government looks like a monarch as it is eager to determine its successor,鈥� said Rab while addressing a standing committee meeting of JSD, held at his Uttara residence in Dhaka.
He also said that the government might have forgotten that the people established Bangladesh as a republic and not a monarchy in 1971 through a bloody war in the absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
鈥楾herefore, who will come to power in the state is not a matter of leftists or rightists,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥榯he people will decide this鈥�.
Abdur Rab also said that having held power for a long time through fraudulent polls without the support of the people, the government had created an extreme fascist system with a culture of fear in the country.
鈥楾he government鈥檚 dream of establishing an undeclared monarchy that blocks the transfer of power through authoritarian means, suppressing the movement by force, will soon turn into a nightmare,鈥� he continued.
He said that the nation should be united and jumped into the second war of independence by overthrowing the government and uprooting the anti-people state system.
On Thursday, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, at a press conference, asked if she was overthrown, who would come to power.
