The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday urged the interim government for a roadmap without delay to hold the national elections and also condemned India saying that it was trying to mislead the global community by spreading disinformation about Bangladesh.
Speaking as the chief guest at a discussion organised by the National People鈥檚 Party at the National Press Club, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain urged the interim government to give an election roadmap immediately.
Khandaker Mosharraf said that the people must be mobilised towards the elections with a polls roadmap and that is the way to crush聽聽 the plots of the defeated forces.
Conspiracies and instability would only increase if the government remained in power indefinitely by talking about reforms.
Mosharraf warned that the people鈥檚 right to vote must be restored immediately, because if the government could not be changed through votes, the people would send them away.
It was possible to counter anti-Bangladesh conspiracies if the people were mobilised for elections, he also said.
On another occasion on the day, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that India was trying to mislead the global communities by spreading false information about Bangladesh, but all their effort would be futile in this era of technology.
Rizvi鈥檚 remarks came while he was talking to journalists after visiting the patients who were injured during the July-August student-led mass uprising at National Institute聽of聽Burn and Plastic Surgery in the capital.
He said that politicians, policymakers and media of the neighbouring country were shedding crocodile tears for the dictator who fled there and trying to mislead the world by spreading disinformation that Hindus were burnt to death along with their homes in Bangladesh.
But in this era of technology, their ill attempts would not succeed, he said.
鈥榃e knew India as a democratic country, where many intelligent and talented people live, but now it seems that violent murderers are living in that country,鈥� the BNP leader said.
Rizvi also said, 鈥楾hey (India) have torn the flag of our beloved motherland, and they insulted diplomats. According to the Vienna Convention, this is a serious international offence.鈥�
He also slammed Delhi for shedding 鈥榗rocodile tears鈥� for Chinmoy [Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a Hindu religious leader], saying that India was doing this only to protect Sheikh Hasina.
He stated that it could not continue because Bangladesh was an independent and sovereign country.