Some political quarters were deliberately raising new demands to thwart or disrupt the election, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday.
”They were making demands unfamiliar to the people of Bangladesh, where even the concept of ‘reform’ was not widely understood.”
”A section within the government is deliberately trying to prevent pro-democracy forces from coming to power. We must stay alert and work harder,” Mirza Fakhrul said at a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club, marking the 10th death anniversary of veteran politician Kazi Zafar Ahmed.
”We have formulated a 31-point programme that incorporates all the reforms. From the beginning, we supported reforms, realising that democracy cannot be established under the existing state structure. Whatever cooperation was needed for reforms, we have provided to the interim government, he added.
Fakhrul said they had not created obstacles anywhere, nor had they raised major demands to oppose the government on the streets.
