Gayeshwar Roy
Zakir Hossain from Dhaka
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Sunday warned that Bangladesh’s interim government “may not survive” if the party takes to the streets. “We want a free and fair election. So, we are not protesting in the way we could have. If we take to the streets, there is doubt whether the government will be able to survive,” Gayeshwar told reporters after paying tribute to late president Ziaur Rahman (Bir Uttam) in Dhaka.
He said BNP had exercised “great patience” to ensure peace but accused the government of “silence” over the July Charter. “Two days after signing the charter, when we received the final copy, some parts were changed. This is completely unacceptable,” he said.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the party would “take responsibility only for the sections it signed,” rejecting additions and omissions made later. He accused the government and the National Consensus Commission of “lying and betraying the nation” and blamed Jamaat for “trying to glorify the July Uprising and distort 1971’s history.” Fakhrul also slammed ex-PM Sheikh Hasina for “making propagandistic statements from India” and urged New Delhi to “return Hasina to Bangladesh for trial.”