Staff Reporter:
BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Wednesday said BNP never told that they won’t join elec-tion, rather they said they won’t participate in ‘staged, one-sided, farce and deceptive’ polls under the current regime.
“The forthcoming upazila polls will not be very different from the previous elections. So, there is no possibility of BNP to contest the upazila polls,” he said after visiting Jubo Dal central committee’s for-mer vice-president SM Jahangir at his Uttara residence. SM Jahangir Uttara residence recently freed from jail.
“Awami League’s decision not to allow party symbol in upazila polls has proved that AL itself acknowl-edges that the people of the country have rejected the ‘boat’ symbol. Because, AL drowned boat them-selves fearing defeat in upazila polls”, he said.
Moyeen Khan, a BNP standing committee member, said,” We want a free, fair and participatory polls. BNP had formed government several times by winning polls with people mandate. We don’t believe in ruling people but doing politics to serve them.”
The government will decide whether they will give back people the right to vote or not, he said.
Replying to a question about the outcomes of BNP’s movement, Dr Moyeen said, “If there were no out-comes of BNP’s struggle, why 95 per cent people boycotted the January 7 dummy election?”
AL is doing politics to stay in power while BNP to serve people. BNP never thinks of grabbing power following illegal way which AL did, he added.
