STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday warned that the opposition alliance would not give the government much time to implement the public mandate delivered through the July charter referendum.

Addressing a rally organised by the 11-party alliance at Laldighi Maidan in Chattogram, Shafiqur, also leader of the opposition in parliament, said the government was constitutionally bound to honour the referendum verdict.

“A government that rejects the public mandate ceases to be a government of the people,” he added.

Shafiqur acknowledged that the BNP government came to power securing 51 percent of the vote, but said it was “equally undeniable that 71 percent of the population voted in favour of implementing the July charter in the referendum.”

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