Staff Reporter:
BNP senior leader Amir Khosru yesterday urged the interim government to promptly unveil an election roadmap to reassure people that the country is moving towards elections and the restoration of democra-cy.
“The suspicions and questions that have arisen among people due to the absence of a specific election roadmap will not bode well for the future of democracy and the electoral process,” he said while talking to reporters after a meeting with the Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) at the BNP Chairperson’s office in Gulshan.
Khosru, a BNP Standing Committee member, said the people of the country are uncertain about when they will regain democratic governance and their rightful ownership of the nation through an election.
“So, an election roadmap must be presented without delay to assure the public that the nation is on the path to restoring democracy. Election is the main vehicle of democracy,” he observed.
As part of BNP’s liaison committee’s ongoing discussions with like-minded political parties on the next election, Khosru, along with BNP Standing Committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and Vice Chairman Barkatullah Bulu, held a meeting with a 10-member BJP delegation led by its Chairman An-dalib Rahman Partha.
BJP Chairman Andalib Rahman Partha said their position is clear that a national charter should be drawn up based on the reforms on which there is consensus, and the country should proceed towards elections accordingly.
He said while fifty political parties may have differing opinions on various matters, the election cannot be delayed, nor can a murky environment be created, simply because of the expectation of complete unanimity.
In response to a question, Partha said it is possible to hold the election before December.
