The Anisul Islam Mahmud-led faction of the Jatiya Party on Saturday urged the government not to hold a ‘one-sided general election’ again.
The faction chief, Anisul Islam Mahmud, at a press conference at its central office in the capital’s Gulshan area, also said that any unilateral election would lead the country to autocratic rule.
Anisul said that the Awami League in 2024 held a unilateral election and voters did not go to the polling centres to cast their votes.
He urged for national unity and said that his party might join in that unity.
Anisul expressed his doubt whether the interim government would hold the next general election in a free, fair and credible manner as there were allegations that the interim government was partisan and favouring some political parties.
He said that when the Awami League regime imposed a ban on the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Jatiya Party opposed that.
But, Jamaat and some other Islamic parties are now demanding a ban on the Jatiya Party, he said.
‘We think that imposing a ban on any political party is not a good sign,’ he added.
The faction secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, executive chairman Mujibul Haque Chunnu, co-chairmen Kazi Firoz Rashid, and Syed Abu Babla, among others, were also present.
