- Strike-blockade and mass curfew from tomorrow
- None from party are aware of roadmap of the program
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is returning to the field with massive program from tomorrow after the mass contact program as part of the hartal blockade and non-cooperation movement end.
According to the party sources, today the party will announce programs till the next 7th election. Hartal blockade and mass curfew program is planned from January 2 to January 7. In the last few days, the party's acting chairman Tarique Rahman has given the message of movement to the grassroots level leaders through online meetings. But what is the type of movement? How will the movement be observed? No instructions have been given on how people will be involved in the movement.
Leaders and activists can only hearing about movements and know the message that programs will come. But everyone is unaware of the roadmap for the implementation of the program. Public relations leaflet distribution program has been going on since December 20 in favor of the non-cooperation movement. The party office sources claimed that so far, leaflets have been distributed to about 60 to 70 lakh people. BNP leaders and activists said they got a huge response to the mass contact program. People are not interested in voting. No one will go to the polling station on the election day. People will respond to BNP's program.
Those concerned with politics said that the Awami League came to power in 2009 after two years of emergency; they have been ruling the country for three terms. In the meantime, BNP boycotted the 2014 election and walked out of parliament. They took part in the 2018 election but were also defeated. This time they are boycotting the vote again and demanding elections under a non-partisan government. So far, there has been no success in their movement. A group of the party is in jail, convicted. Again, a large part has gone into hiding. Although the program came with phases, no one took to the streets for succession it.
According to the grassroots leaders, they are not able to communicate with the top leaders. They don't have a message on how the movement will succeed. An announcement from London is their only hope.
In the meantime, the top leaders of BNP are being punished in the form of a series. So far, about 1,300 leaders and activists have been convicted. Most of them will not be able to participate in any election. BNP alleged that the government is deliberately punishing the leaders using the court to disqualify them from voting. A Dhaka court has sentenced eight people, including BNP joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and former Jubo Dal president Saiful Alam Nirob, to three years' imprisonment in a case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station. The court also fixed January 9 for hearing on the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in nine cases filed with Ramna Model Police Station and Paltan Police Station.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, "I would like to tell the countrymen to take a stand against the corrupt, looters, murderers and boycott the January 7 election. No one will go to the polling centers. The government has locked down the entire country by punishing opposition leaders. People will reply that with boycotting the nominal election."
BNP chairperson's adviser council member Zainul Abedin Faruk is optimistic about the new year despite not achieving success in the 15-year anti-government movement. He hopes the "autocratic" government will fall in 2024. He said, remember that the victory of the people is assured. Dictatorship will not remain in power. We believe the people are with us. The day of victory will come. The people of Bangladesh will not participate in the one-party election under this illegal government. In the response we received by distributing leaflets in the villages, and neighborhoods of Bangladesh, the people said that on January 7, 'we will stay at home with our families, children, we will not go to the polling centers, we will not participate in the election'.
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