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Download PDF Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday blasted the council of advisers to the caretaker government for meeting without the chief adviser and accused them of conspiracy.
In a warning to the interim government, she said, “Just cooperate with the Election Commission in holding the upcoming polls. You are not here to implement anyone’s political agenda.”
“The advisers had a meeting without the chief adviser and it was very much unconstitutional. We don’t know what they have discussed,” she told a huge rally in front of the BNP central office at city’s Nayapaltan.
Pointing to the advisers’ November 6 meeting at a state guesthouse in absence of President and Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed, Khaleda asked, “What sort of plots they [advisers] have hatched at the meeting without the chief adviser?”
Describing the present Election Commission (EC) as fully independent and neutral, she cautioned the caretaker government not to meddle with the commission’s affairs.
The top leader of the four-party alliance then asked the chief election commissioner (CEC) and the other election commissioners to arrange for the elections in consultation with the president.
“People will not tolerate any interference with the Election Commission,” she said taking a swipe at the caretaker government.
The BNP led four-party alliance organised the rally to mark the ‘national revolution and solidarity day’. Hundreds of leaders, workers and supporters of the immediate past ruling parties joined the rally.
In her speech, Khaleda noted that when the constitution requires the advisers to be neutral and non-partisan, some of them took the oath, hiding their political affiliation.
They did not carry out their duties neutrally in the last 10 days. They in fact have failed to live up to their constitutional obligations, she added.
“Two advisers have visited a political leader’s house without maintaining the protocol and in a car without flag. Such meeting is absolutely unconstitutional,” she observed.
“The only duty of the advisers is to help the Election Commission but they don’t seem willing at all to do this,” she alleged.
Some of them talk to the media in a freestyle manner that too is unconstitutional, Khaleda said.
“You alone will have to bear the responsibility if the election is not held in a free and fair manner and the people won’t spare you,” she warned the advisers.
“It’s not their duty to fulfil any political party’s agenda but some of them [advisers] are trying to do precisely the same,” she said.
“One or two advisers are actively working for a political party. And it’s our observation from what we have seen over the last 10 days,” she said calling on the advisers to refrain from those practices.
The former premier then asked the interim administration to help the EC so that it could announce the election schedule shortly.
Criticising Awami League (AL) for ‘creating anarchy’, she said the people will give a befitting reply to the recent killings committed by the Awamis. “They will be punished for the horrific deeds in the people’s court,” she said.
Khaleda said the public will never stand anyone attempting to foil the election.
She said that they [opposition] did everything they could to prove the alliance government a failure but to no avail.
“We did not hand over power on October 28 due to the conspiracy of Awami League. Still, the caretaker government took the charge constitutionally.
“The president’s taking over as the interim government chief was very much in line with the constitution as he did not find anyone fit for the post,” argued the BNP chairperson.
City BNP President and Dhaka City Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka presided over the rally addressed among others by Jamaat Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami, Islami Oikya Jote leader Fazlul Haque Aminee, Chairmen of Bangladesh Jatiya Party factions Naziur Rahman Manzur and MA Matin, BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmad, Saifur Rahman, KM Obaidur Rahman, Khandaker Mahbubuddin Ahmad, Barkat Ullah Bulu, and Aman Ullah Aman.
NEXT PROGRAMMES
The BNP and its allies will hold rallies and stage demonstrations at ward and union levels across the country on November 9 and 10 in protest at what they said was the violence by the 14-party combine.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia announced the programmes at yesterday’s public rally.
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