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Tarique Rahman | File photo

Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday once again called for an early and fair national election.

Addressing the Jashore district BNP conference as the chief guest virtually, he said that the primary responsibility of the interim government was to ensure a free and fair election.


He said that if voted to power, BNP’s primary objective would be to rebuild the country and reform the state structure.

Tarique said that the BNP, as a political party, was the first to place a 31-point charter of reform proposals.

He said that though many people are now vocal about reforms, they remained silent on the issue during the regime of the dictator Sheikh Hasina.

`The main target of the politics of the BNP is the people and the country. It is the BNP that is capable of rebuilding the broken country,’ Tarique said.

BNP does not do any act against the will of the people, he said.

He said that steps were taken against the party leaders and activists who did such activities.

Tqrique said that the BNP was the only party that held its leaders and activists accountable for wrongdoings.

‘We take action against the socially unacceptable conducts…BNP has made its stance on injustice very clear,’ he said.

Tarique said that the ousted autocrat had destroyed the structure of the country.  ‘A total of 6 million leaders and activists of the BNP had to suffer due to false cases,’ he added.

Amanullah Aman, an adviser to the BNP chairperson, inaugurated the conference at Jashore central Eidgah in the district town in the morning.

Jashore district BNP convener Professor Nargis Begum chaired the inaugural session.

The conference was attended, among others, by the party’s acting organising secretary Aninda Islam Amit, assistant organizing secretary Jayanto Kumar Kundu, Amalendu Das Apu,  Mostfizur Rahman, Engineer TS Ayub, Abul Hossan Azad, Syed Saberul Haque Sabu and Delwar Hossain Khokon.

Before Saturday’s conference, the conference of the district BNP was held for the last time in 2009. In 2019, a convening committee headed by Professor Nargis Begum was formed for the district BNP.