BNP places multiple demands at dialogue with CA

BNP on Saturday placed a series of demands to the interim government as the party held a meeting with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and other advisers.

BNP’s demands including removal of “one or two” members of the interim government, legal action against former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, removal of “partisan judges” from the High Court, scrapping some contractual appointments of bureaucrats.

The dialogue began at 2:30pm at the State Guest House Jamuna.

The BNP delegation was led by the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Others present in the meeting were BNP standing committee members BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abbas, Nazrul Islam Khan, Abdul Moin Khan and Salahuddin Ahmed   

After the meeting, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir briefed media about their talks and demands.

“There are one or two in the interim government who are obstructing the main sprint of the interim government and the people’s uprising. We demanded their removal,” he said.

He said they also suggested cancelling some contractual appointees.

The party demanded legal action against former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque who according to BNP, was the main man behind “destroying the electoral system and cancellation of the caretaker government system”, on charge of sedition.

Additionally, BNP demanded that all the chief election commissioners and other election commissioners be brought to justice for holding farcical and failed national election in 2014, 2018, and 2024.

BNP also demanded suspending the Election Commission Appointment Act, and formation of a new election commission immediately based on the consensus of major political parties.

In the meeting, BNP made the demand that the interim government announce a roadmap for holding the next election.

After BNP’s meeting, a seven-member delegation of Jamaat, led by its Amir Shafiqur Rahman, entered the State Guest House Jamuna to hold dialogue with the chief adviser.