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Leaders of the BNP-led four-party alliance once again blasted the caretaker government (CG) advisers yesterday for their latest move to resolve the political crisis, saying they are acting as underlings of the Awami League (AL) without taking any action for its countrywide blockade programme.
They reiterated that they would not accept crossing the 90-day limit for holding the next general election and any unconstitutional move to reconstitute the Election Commission (EC). The four-party would take to the street if the CG does anything for a particular party, they warned.

“You (CG) can change the election schedule without shifting the date of voting but you must not do anything beyond the constitution in the name of reconstitution (of the EC),” BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan said at a rally in front of the party central office at Naya Paltan in the capital.

Bhuiyan said they would not accept EC reconstitution if the initiative hampers electoral process. Power has to be handed over to an elected government after completing the election within 90 days, and there is no alternative to it, he added.

“We will take to the street if you (CG) do anything for any particular party,” the BNP stalwart warned.

Criticising the CG, he said, ” It is acting as a lackey of the Awami League and this is why it took no action nor arrested a single person when this party enforced a blockade programme.”

The former LGRD and cooperatives minister again resented continued transfers of government officials and asked the CG to stop the process.

“Don’t transfer officials with no links to holding of election,” he said.

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General and former minister Ali Ahsan Mujahid said CG advisers should not act like ‘B-team’ of the AL.

On the proposed EC reconstitution, he said “You (CG) must not ask any election commissioners to go on leave. If you try to do so, we will enforce programmes to halt it.”

Former minister Mirza Abbas alleged that the advisers are trying to implement AL’s agenda, and threatened to keep them ‘confined’ if they do not give up such move.

Aman Ullah Aman said the advisers are echoing the views of AL President Sheikh Hasina.

Chaired by Mayor and city BNP President Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the rally was also addressed by BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Ray, Jamaat leader Delowar Hossain Saidee and Bangaladesh Jatiya Party leader Shamim Al Mamun.

Saturday’s programme: The BNP secretary general yesterday announced that the four-party will hold rally at the city’s Muktangon and bring out processions at district headquarters on that day.