Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Friday urged the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party to join the Election Commission-sponsored dialogue for the sake of democracy and free, fair and credible elections.
Suranjit told a discussion in the city that skipping the dialogue by the BNP could give an impression that the party did not want free and fair elections.
The Election Commission invited BNP to the dialogue it was holding with political parties on issues like RPO, demarcation of constituencies, appointment of election commissioners and use of electronic voting machine. But BNP did not attend the talks.
'BNP wants to go to power through backdoor so they are not interested in dialogue with the Election Commission…It is trying to stand in the way of free and fair polls,' Suranjit said at the discussion organised by Bangabandhu Mancha at the Dhaka Reporters Unity office.
He said an independent Election Commission was a prerequisite for holding credible polls.
Suranjit urged the law, home and foreign ministries to work together for bringing back the fugitive killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from abroad.
The discussion was organised ias part of National Mourning Day, which falls on August 15, the 36th death anniversary of the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Dhaka city AL general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowd-hury Maya and its publicity secretary Abdul Haque Sabuj took part in the discussion.
Source : New Age
