DHAKA: Charging Awami League with killing democracy first in 1975, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) says democracy was murdered again by Awami League on January 5 when farcical elections took place.
 
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the acting Secretary General of the party, made the observation while speaking to journalists after placing floral wreaths at the grave of party founder Ziaur Rahman in the capital on Saturday.
 
He added that the BNP`s mass movement will ultimately force Sheikh Hasina to hold free and fair elections under a caretaker government that the BNP has been demanding all along.
 
Fakhrul said, “Awami League once destroyed democracy in 1975 by forming one-sided illegal undemocratic government. They repeated the same practice by establishing an autocratic government depriving people of their democratic rights in the recently conducted 10th national polls.”
 
The government did not get the support of the common man, the senior BNP leader claimed.
 
The advisor of BNP Chairperson Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and senior leaders of the party like Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Shimul Biswas were also present.

BDST:1420 HRS, FEB 08, 2014