Take oath to wage tough movement

BNP policymakers urge activists
Staff Correspondent
BNP top policymakers yesterday called upon the party's leaders and activists to take oath for waging a tough movement so that the government agrees to hold the next general polls under a caretaker government and refrains from its “evil design to hold a one-sided election”. The BNP leaders told a discussion marking the 77th birth anniversary of late president Ziaur Rahman, also founder of BNP. “You [leaders and activists of BNP] will have to take oath so that the government's wish for holding a one-sided election is not fulfilled,” Tariqul Islam, a BNP standing committee member, told the discussion held at the capital's Mohanogor Natyamancha. Branding the Awami League government as “failed and corrupt”, Tariqul said the government has destroyed the country's all democratic institutions including the judiciary. Moudud Ahmed, a BNP standing committee member, said there is no rule of law in the country at present, as the government is interfering with the country's judicial system.