Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday said that after the country had been freed from fascism, communal forces were now on the rise, creating fresh dangers for democratic values.
Speaking at a discussion organised by the Human Research and Analysis Foundation at the National Press Club in the capital, he said that communalism was promoting mob tendency and threatening to undermine democracy.
Gayeshwar cautioned that if the state system could not be kept on a democratic path, communalism would prove twice as difficult as fascism and could ultimately devastate the public life.
Criticising the demand for the proportional representation system in the next elections, he said that the PR system was in Nepal and under this arrangement, there could be one prime minister in the morning, another in the afternoon, and yet another at night.
The meeting, titled 鈥楯uly Revolution and Thoughts on the Future of Democracy鈥�, was chaired by the organisation鈥檚 convener Ahmed Hossain.
BNP joint secretary general Abdus Salam Azad, and Bangladesh Open University vice-chancellor ABM Obaidul Islam, among others, addressed the event.