The government will face “dire consequences” if it does not respond to the BNP’s call for a dialogue over a neutral caretaker government’s supervision in the next national polls, the party has warned.
Published : 26 Jul 2014, 09:06 PM
Addressing the media on Saturday, party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said: “The BNP has been and will continue to call for talks to ensure an acceptable election participated by all parties for the sake of peace, stability and democratic politics.
“We’ll hit the streets if our dialogue call is ignored,” he warned.
It was the BNP that declined to sit for talks before the Jan 5 polls.
The party demanded a non-party government’s supervision but the provision was scrapped through the 15th Constitutional Amendment.
Then Awami League-led government refused to budge an inch from its stance of supervising the polls.
It led to a poll-boycott by the BNP-led alliance. As a result of which the Awami League-led coalition secured a comfortable two-third majority.