Leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami-led opposition alliance on Sunday alleged that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was following the path of the Awami League by ignoring the verdict of the referendum, held simultaneously with the national elections on February 12.
They made the allegation at a daylong convention on the issues of reforms, referendum, fuel crisis and economic reforms at the Diploma Engineers Institution auditorium in the capital.
Reform Implementation Committee of the National Citizen Party, a component of the Jamaat-led alliance, organised the convention.
NCP convener Nahid Islam chaired the discussion titled ‘The formation of a democratic Bangladesh and the implementation of reforms and verdict of the referendum’ at the convention.
Addressing the event, Jamaat secretary general Mia Golan Parwar said that the BNP now did not want to implement the referendum verdict where about 70 per cent of voters cast ‘yes’ votes.
He called on BNP leaders to take immediate steps to implement the referendum verdict to uphold the spirit of the July Uprising.
Otherwise, the Jamaat-led alliance will continue movements to compel the government to implement the referendum verdict, he warned.
Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis amir Mamunul Haque said that the people of the country were waiting eagerly to see a democratic country that would uphold the spirit of the July Uprising.
‘Our party would continue movements until the implementation of referendum verdict,’ he said.
Amar Bangladesh Party chairman Mojibur Rahman Monju, Khelafat Majlis joint secretary general Mohammad Jalal, Nagarik Oikya central leader Saqeeb Anwar, and NCP central leader Ariful Islam Adib, among others, also spoke.
In another discussion meeting organised during the convention, lawyer Sara Hossain said that the people who were detained during the rule of the interim government did not get bail in cases against them.
She hoped that the judiciary would take steps to grant them bail.
NCP leader Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan chaired the session.
