Desk Reports :
Defeated fugitive forces are lurking waiting for opportunities: Tarique Rahman
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that the defeated fugitive forces are waiting for an opportunity ahead of the national elections. In this situation, he has called on the anti-fascist forces to avoid practicing illegal politics and walk the path of elections with caution.
Tarique Rahman said these words while virtually joining a discussion meeting at the Engineers Institution Auditorium in the capital on Sunday afternoon. BNP organized this meeting on the occasion of the party’s 47th founding anniversary.
Tarique Rahman said, “A year ago, I said that an invisible force is working around the next election. The recent activities of that evil force have gradually become visible.”
Questioning whether such statements as “elections will not be allowed to take place” will weaken the unity of the anti-fascist forces or create relevance for the resurgence of the fugitive fascist forces, he said, “There is still time, we need to be careful. The defeated fugitive force is waiting for an opportunity.’
The acting chairman of the BNP said, ‘In some recent incidents, including the attack on the President of the People’s Rights Council, Nur, it is clear that the stable situation in the country is gradually becoming complicated or is being complicated. The interim government is the government of the people’s will. I do not think there is any logical reason to expect this government to play the role of a politically competent and accountable government.
‘Accordingly, the longer the interim government remains in power, the more their weaknesses will become visible. The more the weaknesses of the interim government are visible in handling various situations, the more confusion will be created about the July mass uprising.’
He said, ‘In fascism-free Bangladesh, now is the time and opportunity to establish the rights of the people. One of the main ways to establish the rights of the people of the country by utilizing this opportunity is the national election. Until a democratic government that is accountable to the people and accountable to the people is established through a free, fair and impartial election, democracy is not risk-free.
The BNP leader believes that the need of the hour is to relax the conditions for establishing people’s rights in the state and politics and walk the path of elections.
Alleging that attempts are being made to obstruct the elections, he said, “When the interim government in a dictatorship-free Bangladesh is walking the path of establishing people’s rights, some political parties are imposing various conditions to fulfill their party interests instead of establishing rights through elections.
“Many people have started thinking that by imposing these conditions, they are creating obstacles in the path of elections.”
At this time, Tarique Rahman said to those obstructing the elections, “There is definitely a need for reforms. However, no reform can be sustainable by creating obstacles in the path of exercising people’s rights. Instead of the anti-politics of preventing BNP’s victory like a runaway dictatorship, let’s all form a government that is accountable to the people through elections first.”
