The member of the BNP standing committee commented that the people gave the mandate to the interim government to transform Bangladesh from dictatorship to democracy. Abdul Moin Khan.
He said, ‘Their (interim government) only simple mandate is to establish Bangladesh democracy. But if the government now thinks that they have given a mandate to reform everything, they will remain in power for the next 100 years – this mandate was not given to them by the students. If the students also think that, they are thinking wrong.’
He said these things at the ‘Round Table on Two Months of the Interim Government’ organized by The Millennium University at a hotel in Gulshan of the capital on Tuesday (October 8) afternoon.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and others spoke in the chairperson of Millennium University Board of Trustees Advocate Rokhsana Khandkar.
Moin Khan said, ‘Bible is not the word of the students, the people of Bangladesh know political science well. And also know how to take action against autocratic government in this country. Let us go back to democracy through fair and impartial elections, give people their real rights. 1991 election was the most impartial election in 53 years of independence. The government can learn from there too.’
Commenting that the interim government has gone through a difficult situation in the last two months, he said, ‘especially the fog that was created around August 15, but that fog has disappeared in the political sky. They succeeded. After that, they are trying to destabilize the country with planned judicial queue, Ansar, minority issue, India-caused floods, garment industry, creating instability in Chittagong Hill Tracts, increasing commodity prices, audio leakage from over the border and lastly Durga Puja. But the people will resist this time.’
He said, ‘People’s question – is this government suffering from indecisiveness? Are they able to work as quickly as they needed to? Will the revolutionary government be able to re-establish democracy in a short time? Reforms and elections will go hand in hand – the government has admitted this today. The democratic process of giving people’s opinion is working to some extent. This is an auspicious sign.’
This senior leader of BNP said, ‘America and European Union said that Bangladesh is a liberal Muslim country. Basically, Awami League was not secular for the last 15 years, but it was religionless. Muslims in this country have never been fundamentalists, still are not. Awami League tried to get the help of the West by proving Muslims to be fundamentalists by repeatedly misrepresenting them. The same campaign is being carried out in the world again with Durga Puja in front.’ He alleged that thousands of crores of rupees are being spent on this.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in the meeting, “Sheikh Hasina is not getting shelter in any other country except India.” Not even in England. This is because the international world knows what a terrible fascist he is. Those involved in genocide must be prosecuted. However, the government’s role in this regard is very lax.’
He also commented that if the position of the government is so lax, then dictatorship can rise again.