National Citizens Party member-secretary Akhtar Hossen on Thursday said that the Jatiya Sangsad elections should be held after reforms and constitutional amendment through constituent assembly elections.
鈥楤ut many people only want the Jatiya Sangsad elections to take place ignoring necessary reforms. The interim government has to come to a decision on these issues so that it can organise the Jatiya Sangsad elections at the right time,鈥� he said.
Akhtar Hossen was talking to journalists during a public rally at Ambari in the Haragachh area under Kawnia upazila of Rangpur.
He said that the interim government could hold elections within the already given time frame. 鈥楬owever, before that, the interim government must implement the reform programmes, improve the judiciary to a visible level, ensure impartiality at the field level and secure a level playing field.鈥�
Akhtar said that many discussions had been held on the reforms that were needed in the constitution, judiciary, administration, and every place in Bangladesh. 鈥楾he sooner the interim government can ensure these things, the sooner it can hold elections.鈥�
He said that the NCP was able to expand across the country in a very short time and was working to make the reforms and justice visible, including the constituent assembly elections.
鈥榃e are also working to shape public opinion so that the government can implement the reform programmes that it has brought to the discussion. We can pave the way forward by taking the masses with us in any democratic movement,鈥� he said.
The NCP member-secretary said that when the people鈥檚 aspirations changed in any society and when a new political group emerged, the constituent assembly elections played a crucial role there in creating a constitutional structure.
He distributed pamphlets on justice, reform, constituent assembly and national election ideas and addressed street rallies in different areas of Haragachh town and Kawnia and Pirgachha upazilas of Rangpur-4 constituency.
First joint coordinator of the Rangpur metropolitan NCP Alamgir Suman, Rangpur district joint coordinator NI Suman, and leaders of the Rangpur district and metropolitan NCP accompanied Akhtar.
