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BNP terms govt, 10th JS illegal

Standing committee sits after 3 months, mulls giving ultimatum to govt to quit, hold fresh polls under non-party govt

RASHIDUL HASAN
The BNP has adopted a resolution terming the Hasina government and the 10th parliament illegal, immoral and unconstitutional because the people had "spontaneously rejected" the January 5 election.
The nine-point resolution also strongly demanded the government hand over power to a non-party caretaker administration "immediately" for a fresh and inclusive national election.
A meeting of the party's highest policy-making body - the national standing committee - at party chief Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office on Thursday night passed the resolution unanimously.
According to meeting sources, two committee members suggested that the party should set an ultimatum of six or nine months for a fresh national election. But some others said it might be too early.
Khaleda, who was leader of the opposition in the 9th parliament, intervened at this point and asked the meeting to go for the resolution.
Thursday's was the first national standing committee meeting of BNP in the last three months. The last one was held on October 27.
During the tenure of Hasina-led immediate-past government, especially in the last two years, the BNP chairperson issued several ultimatums for restoration of the non-party caretaker administration system.
The BNP-Jamaat-led alliance, which had been demanding a non-party administration to oversee the 10th parliamentary election, stayed rigid on its stance not to take part in the January 5 polls under Hasina government.
The opposition combine, however, failed to stop the election in which 153 MPs were elected unopposed, voter turnout was significantly poor and deadly violence flared up.
"The BNP leaders in the meeting opined that Bangladesh has been turned into a terrorist country by destroying democracy through killing, forced disappearance and wholesale oppression ON opposition men," the resolution said.
A copy of the resolution undersigned by BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed was sent to media last night. There was no briefing after the one-and-half-hour meeting of the standing committee ended around 11:00pm on Thursday.
The meeting also discussed various other issues, including recent verdicts on 10-truck arms haul cases, legal process in the August 21 grenade attack and the upcoming upazila election. But nothing was mentioned in the resolution.