The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called upon the top two leaders of Awami League and BNP to start dialogue shortly as it expressed ‘concern’ over the rising confrontation and violence.
Published : 12 Mar 2013, 03:19 PM
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the graft watchdog’s Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman said, “The rising violence, chaos and disorder are deeply worrying, regrettable and unacceptable by any standard.”
“Failure to exercise restraint and stop the negative, confrontational and destructive political game can be of grave risk for our journey to democracy and democratic institutionalization,” he said.
He called upon the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia ‘to pause for a moment’ in the spirit of glorious independence and liberation war, and consider implications of the violent and ‘aggressive political game for the people of the country whose leaders they are and in whose name they are involved in politics.’