People of country don't want PR but fair election: Dulu
Natore Correspondent
BNP central leader, former minister Advocate M Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu said, BNP never gives shelter to any enforced disappearance, murder, or terrorism, nor will it ever do so in the future.
Whoever commits enforced disappearances, murders, or terrorism must be arrested quickly and brought to justice. Demanding that all those involved in the murder of street vendor Sohag in Dhaka be brought under the law, he said, BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman has decided to permanently expel all of them from the party.
He said, “We are noticing that a certain political party is making false allegations against BNP, to make BNP controversial, to brand BNP as extortionists, to destroy BNP’s image in various ways. Just as conspiracies were hatched for 15 years, similarly now before the parliamentary elections, an attempt is being made to tarnish BNP’s image. We want to state clearly, there will be no place for extortionists and terrorists in BNP.”
He said these on Saturday afternoon at the workers’ rally organized by the District Nationalist Transport Workers’ Party in memory of the people’s uprising and martyrs at the Natore District Council Multipurpose Auditorium.
Presided over by Natore District Workers’ Party President Abu Raihan Bhulu, others who spoke at the rally included Nationalist Workers’ Party Central Vice President and Nationalist Railway Workers Employees President Rafiqul Islam, Natore District BNP Convener Rahim Newaz, District Transport Workers’ Union President Shafiqul Islam Bulbul, Truck Tank Lorry and Covered Van President Abdul Jalil, former District BNP Convener Shahidul Islam Bacchu, Joint Conveners Mostafizur Rahman Shahin and Saiful Islam Aftab, former Mayor of Natore Municipality Kazi Shah Alam and Sheikh Emdadul Haque Al Mamun among others.
Dulu further said, in the last 15 and a half years, being fed up with the Awami League’s oppression, torture, murders, and disappearances, the students, people, workers, farmers, and people from all walks of life took to the streets and on August 5 forced the Awami League to leave, causing their downfall. We were successful. Workers of the country played an important role in that movement. Sheikh Hasina on that day went to the hospital and instructed doctors not to treat the injured. But on that day, ordinary rickshaw pullers of Dhaka risked their lives to take the injured and dead to the hospital.
He said, after the meeting in London between BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman and the interim government’s head Dr. Yunus Ali, people of the country have seen a ray of hope about the election.
