
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Sunday said that BNP’s movement would continue until establishing people’s government in the country.
‘Though the dictator has fallen, the movement has not ended. The movement of BNP will continue until establishing people’s voting rights,’ Tarique said while addressing a rally virtually in Satkhira.
The district unit of BNP organised the rally to accord a reception for BNP leaders, including former lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, who had recently been released from jail.
Habib, also a central leader of BNP, and 49 other party activists were on February 4, 2021 jailed by the Satkhira Chief Judicial Magistrate Court for attacking the motorcade of Awami League president and the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 2002.
The BNP central leader and 33 other activists of the party were in jail since the pronouncement of the verdict. They were released from jail after the fall of Sheikh Hasina during a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
Addressing the Satkhira rally, Tarique said that the conspiracy against the country was continuing.
Without referring to any name, he said that some political parties that were spreading confusion had fallen into the trap of a neighbouring country.
‘Some do not want the people of this country to regain their democratic rights. If the country is politically and financially strong, the plans of the conspirators from inside and outside the country to destroy democracy will fail,’ he said.
He also said that the entire nation saw the brutality of the fallen dictator. ‘The desire of the people of Bangladesh for the future is to move ahead at an expected level.’
‘BNP will fulfil their expectation. BNP’s politics is for the people,’ he said and added that BNP’s politics was for development and production.
Tarique also said that BNP would take responsibility for the development of people’s livelihoods through the development of communication system when it would come to power.
He said that the purpose of BNP was to use the potential of the Sunderbans appropriately so that the people of the country could get benefit from it.
He further said that this benefit was possible only if the government elected by the people would run the country.
‘BNP works to change people’s fate... democracy will be restored by breaking the teeth of all conspiracies,’ he said.