Staff Reporter:
BNP’s senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday unequivocally said that the opposition parties who have been on a movement will not leave the streets until democracy is restored.
“We would like to say clearly that no other system except democracy will ever work in Bangla-desh,” he said .
Speaking at a mass signature collection program arranged by Nagorik Oikya in the capital, the BNP leader also said that the current Awami League government is ruling the country by the power of guns after usurping the state power.
“It’s not only us who are saying this now, look at media around the world and look at the state-ments issued by different countries about the farcical election held on January 7. They echoed what we, the democratic opposition parties, have been saying for last few years about the farcical elections,” he observed.
Dr Moyeen, a BNP standing committee member, said that it is established at home and abroad that democracy is now dead in Bangladesh.
He said their party’s only goal is to bring democracy back to Bangladesh. “Inshallah, our move-ment for democracy will continue…we won’t leave the streets until we can restore democracy and the democratic rights of the people of Bangladesh.”
The BNP leader expressed hope that every people of the country will join Nagorik Oikya’s mass signature program against the farcical elections. He also urged the people to reject the current re-gime.
Nagorik Oikya launched the mass signature collection program in favor of democracy and to disap-prove the January-7 national election in front of the National Press Club.
