Regardless of harbouring doubts and reservations in regards to the authorities and clear other political actors, the BNP has opted for a manner centered on cultivating a particular image by steering some distance from confrontational politics to toughen its public image and make belief.
Occasion leaders said their plan is now to make public belief, demonstrating that the BNP can foster a particular political culture and will not be going to emulate the actions of the Awami League if voted to energy again.
In a recent standing committee meeting, BNP Performing Chairman Tarique Rahman emphasised the importance of enhancing the celebration’s reputation through particular actions, statements and the habits of its rotten and file.
The BNP policymakers moreover agreed that, with out reference to their reservations and discontent over some actions and statements by the interval in-between authorities, student leaders of the mass circulate, and clear Islamist parties, namely Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the celebration ought to avoid confrontation. As one more, they ought to take care of the disaster tactfully, a BNP standing committee member told UNB.
He said the BNP targets to help a warmth relationship with the authorities in pronounce to influence it to help the nationwide election as soon as most likely, following main reforms to the electoral route of, administration, and judiciary.
The BNP chief, nonetheless, said their celebration would continue to exert rigidity on the authorities through political statements and divisional rallies, searching for a clear roadmap for the nationwide election.
He moreover described the formation of the Election Rate as a particular step by the authorities in direction of getting ready for the nationwide election.
One other BNP standing committee member said they would possibly well reply to the interval in-between authorities’s proposals for reforms in quite a lot of areas, in conjunction with the Election Rate (EC), in the interest of guaranteeing a free, magnificent, and fair election.
The Electoral Reforms Rate has already requested proposals from 22 political parties and alliances, in conjunction with the BNP, on attainable reforms to the electoral machine.
“This topic used to be completely talked about at our standing committee meeting on Tuesday (19 November) evening. We maintain now decided to submit our reform proposals to the authorities on quite a lot of key components,” the BNP chief said.
Besides, he talked about that the celebration has begun organising workshops on BNP’s 31-level notify reform outline across all divisions, with the principle one held in Dhaka on Tuesday, to generate public toughen.
The BNP policymakers moreover said they’ve taken steps to present a boost to relations with student leaders of the mass circulate, staying in out of the ordinary contact with them, as they deem Jamaat has already developed a connection with them. “We are in a position to undertake the identical manner in direction of Jamaat, as we’re no longer searching for confrontation with the celebration, especially with the upcoming elections in mind.”
BNP Secretary Same old Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, speaking at a programme on Monday, warned celebration leaders and workers now to not distance themselves from the college students who accomplished a pivotal characteristic in the circulate that introduced down the Awami League regime.
He acknowledged that while the BNP had persisted torture and harassment for 17 years, it used to be in the extinguish the college students who accomplished a in point of fact necessary characteristic in ousting Sheikh Hasina’s authorities. “We ought to no longer fabricate any distance with the college students. We ought to think it. Students are saying many issues, and they’ve that magnificent.”
Chatting with UNB, Fakhrul emphasised the importance of sustaining unity amongst all stakeholders in the scholar-led revolt to consolidate its success and guard against any makes an strive to destabilise the country and undermine the nation.
He moreover warned of a deliberate effort to disrupt the unity between political parties, college students and the final public. “We are in a position to no longer enable this to occur. We ought to all cease vigilant.”
The BNP chief instructed that the interval in-between authorities ought to focal level completely on reforms in the electoral route of, administration, and judiciary to make certain a legit nationwide election within an cheap timeframe.
He expressed disaster that any prolong in the election would possibly perchance moreover aggravate existing complications and provide opportunities for vested pursuits to maintain interplay corrupt play.
Fakhrul moreover acknowledged that BNP will continue to toughen the interval in-between authorities to make certain its success for the nation’s serve.
Relating to BNP’s relationship with Jamaat, he emphasised that there’ll not be one of these thing as a viewed distance between the 2 parties, but highlighted that BNP and Jamaat maintain entirely assorted political ideologies and beliefs.
When asked whether or no longer Jamaat will most likely be half of BNP’s coalition in the next election, he said, “It is too early to impart. We are in a position to assess public thought sooner than the election and judge whether or no longer we are in a position to take dangle of half independently or as half of an alliance.”
BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku said the interval in-between authorities, political parties and student leaders ought to stay united to revive democracy and defend other folk’s vote casting rights.
He said the youth who led the mass revolt, along with the broader public, maintain been deprived of their magnificent to vote. “Restoring other folk’s rights to franchise is the contemporary authorities’s necessary accountability,” he asserted.
