Won’t sit idle if election is delayed: BNP

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Thursday warned that their party leaders and workers will not sit idle if the next national election is not held within a reasonable time.

"We want the people who won the country to elect their representatives to form a parliament and government with their votes through a free, fair and impartial election. This was the main point of the revolution,” he said, reports UNB.

Speaking at a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club, the BNP leader said the nation has entrusted the interim government with the responsibility to hold the election to restore their voting rights.

He said their party will provide the government with a reasonable timeframe for holding the next election. “If that time passes, Ziaur Rahman's BNP, under the leadership of Tariq Rahman, will certainly not sit at home and eat peanuts. We will take necessary actions based on reality in the future.”

Gayeshwar, a BNP standing committee member, said that they will observe what the government does for some days. “Then we will do what we have done in the past. A death warrant is not significant for us. None of us can be killed when we are ready to die.”

Jagrata Bangladesh arranged the discussion titled ‘The responsibilities of the Interim Government and Political Parties in the current context of the country’.