The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday demanded resignation of the entire cabinet saying it had no right to stay in office after its 'mountainous failures' in all sectors.
'Resign with your entire cabinet and let people heave a sigh of relief,' said the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
'Ministers are now blaming each other for failures and their [AL] lawmakers are demanding resignation of certain ministers. Resignation by
one or two ministers will not work, the entire cabinet should quit,' he said at a rally in front of the party's central office at Naya Paltan in protest against the government's indifference to the death of people in traffic accidents.
He said, 'Their [AL-led government] lawmakers and alliance partners are pointing the finger at the government which puts the blame on BNP-Jamaat government to hide its failures.' He asked the prime minister not to play the old record.
Mirza Fakhrul said appalling condition of roads which had forced buses to stay off roads was a new addition to the 'long list of the failures' of the government which, he said, had already failed 'miserably' to contain prices and improve law and order and power supply situation.
'There is no safety of people on roads…Traffic accidents causing death of people, including the best children of the nation... Vehicles are staying off rundown highways,' he said.
Fakhrul wondered how many people would be able to buy new clothing to celebrate Eid amid skyrocketing prices. He said the situation would continue deteriorating until the government resigned.
He urged the people to join movement under Khaleda Zia's leadership to unseat the government.
Fakhrul said the BNP wanted good relations with India but it must be based on equity. 'Tell the people what the country will get in exchange for transit facilities to India,' he asked the government and warned it not to give any facilities to India unless Bangladesh got its due share of the waters of common rivers.
BNP vice-chairmen Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Abdullah Al Noman and other leaders, including Abdus Salam, Khairul Kabir Khokan and Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, also spoke at the rally.
Source : New Age
