We express our concern over the frequent violence in different parts of the country ahead of the upcoming national election. Clashes between the workers of ruling Awami League and BNP are taking places almost every day.
It has been noticed BNP activists are taking to streets in angry mood, chanting provocative slogans, clashing with law enforcers and attacking ruling party men at different parts of the country. On the other hand, it is very clear that Awami League workers would not sit idle and they are also prepared to resist any terrorist acts in the name of the movement. So, when BNP activists take to streets or go on rampage, Awami League workers resist them, leading to clashes between the two parties.
Many activists of BNP, its key ally Jamaat, their student wings, anti-liberation forces, communal forces and terrors who went into hiding to avert arrest, are coming out of their hideouts and taking part in the hooliganism during BNP’s political programmes only to create anarchy. The party’s violent activities during its rule or in opposition between 2001 and 2015 had also created panic among the people. As a result the party lost peoples’ confidence.
As Awami League is the ruling party,
its leaders and workers must be more
tolerant towards BNP and other political parties
On 12 May, 2017, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now convicted on graft charge, had unveiled “Vision 2030” aiming to turn Bangladesh into a high-middle-income nation within the next 13 years. The party had also a plan to carry out a campaign and mass contact programme across the country to regain public trust. But deviating away from the party’s “Vision 2030”, its leaders and workers have again started plotting to oust the government at any cost.
However, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured BNP of providing all cooperation to continue its political programmes as she (Sheikh Hasina) believes in democracy.
But the leaders and workers of the party are engaging in vandalism and launching attack on Awami League leaders and workers and law enforcers instead of waging peaceful movement.
BNP should refrain from such hooliganism and place its vision before people again as a part of its preparation to contest the next Jatiya Sangsad election. If the party boycotts the election and tries to create chaos, it will become isolated from the mass people. However, as Awami League is the ruling party, its leaders and workers must be more tolerant towards BNP and other opposition political parties.
