By Sumi Khan Dhaka 12 August : A fresh controversial dispute has erupted following an influential Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader informed his followers that the BNP was preparing for violent street protests in order to remove the Awami League (AL) government headed by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instead of fighting it out politically in elections.
“By all means, we should not contest elections but we do find the latest decision of the Election Commission to reach out to us, but we will not fight every election,” said prominent BNP leader Mirza Abbas.
But, AL Chief Sheikh Hasina has asked her party’s workers and leaders to stand up against any conspiracy to cause disturbance and unrest in the country like BNP Jamaat’s bombings of public buses and attacks on law enforcement officers in the year in 2013 when the party boycotted the elections and later carried out violent attacks in order to stop the war crimes trial and to bring down the government of Hasina.
The threats made by important BNP leaders comes just one month of a previous warning from BNP’s Volunteer Wing Secretary, who threatened Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with “a repeat of 1975,” referring to the massacre of her entire family in the military coup of the time.
These repeated threats from the BNP have forced the Bangladesh Home Ministry to take seriously because August is a month that of August is a time of reliving the horrors of the coup of 1975 that killed the entire family of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the person who was the founder of the nation and the ‘Father of the Nation’.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana were able to escape the attack because they were sheltered by the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
In the midst of the inability of killing the entire Bangabandhu family, on the 21st of August 2004 an attack with a grenade almost killed Hasina.However, more than 30 AL workers, including high-ranking leaders died.
BNP the leader of BNP Tarique Rahman, who was in the position of power in 2004 was found guilty by the court following an extensive judicial process as the leader of the conspiracy to murder Hasina in the direct cooperation with radicals.
Jamaat-e-Islami an extremist outfit and an important ally of BNP has been intensifying efforts to connect with to the masses through the formation of villages unit committees.
Tarique and his mother Khaleda Zia have lived up to the legacy of her late husband, General Zia-ur-Rahman, Bangladesh’s first military ruler, who turned the clock back on the country’s “unfinished revolution” by setting in motion a process of ‘re-Pakistanisation’, which culminated in his successor General H.M.Ershad declaring Islam as the state religion of Bangladesh, says Bangladesh watcher Sukhoranjan Dasgupta,
He stated that Sheikh Hasina continues to carry on the legacy of her father Bangabandhu of national freedom and also the dream of “Sonar Bangla” (Golden Bengal).It is the result of the struggle to gain independence from Pakistan in the midst of the most horrific violence in South Asia, Dasgupta said.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir directed his party’s officials and members to “hit the streets to topple the Sheikh Hasina-led administration”.
“Sit in the streets, and take down the current government.” Fakhrul stated this while addressing an anti-government protest at the National Press Club on Tuesday afternoon.
In constant threats to boycott the election In a constant threat to boycott elections, the BNP Secretary General has announced this.
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