Six days after demanding a “national government,” opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front has outlined a blueprint of it can be accomplished.
Oikya Front ally Jatiya Shamajtantrik Dal chief ASM Abdur Rab provided details on the plan during a discussion at Dhaka Reporters Unity Convention on Friday (Oct 4).
Rab said that the “national government” as proposed by the alliance will fulfill the absence or crisis of the Constitution after the “current illegal regime steps down.”
He added that the new order will be formed after dialogues between political parties, professional and intellectual society.
According to the key Oikya Front leader, the new government will fix a way to revive and reform the three “fundamental pillars of the state that have been destroyed,” and will also propose amendments to the Constitution for the deconstruction of democratic-dictatorship in the state.
The new government will also maintain internal political unity in order to preserve the sovereignty of national freedom and adopt policies for “dignified participation” in international politics, he said.
Rab reiterated that the incumbent regime has “morally destroyed the state organisations and crippling them.”
He said that the government was “falsely publicizing” being in power through public mandate despite “vote rigging” the night before the national polls and called on everyone to ponder of the implications of the lack of morals and democratic ideals of the government.
“On Sept 28, Jatiya Oikya front issued a statement with three demands including the proposal of a National Government,” Rab’s Political Secretary Shahidullah Forayezi told Bangla Tribune.
The statement demanded that the incumbent government steps down and announcing a “national government.”
They also sought freeing all politically imprisoned politicians including BNP chief Khaleda Zia along with dialogues with the protesting political parties and professional organisations to overcome the political and political and administrative crisis.
Oikya Front also demanded the formation of an acceptable national commission to probe the disappearances and killings under the government as well as the vote rigging the night before the Dec 30 polls last year.
Meanwhile, several leftists leaders outside the front, however, said that although the demands were being made under the Oikya Front banner, the alliance’s biggest ally BNP’s stance on the matter is not yet clear.
Saiful Hoque, a leader of Gonotantrik Bam Morcha, an alliance of leftist political parties, told Bangla Tribune that the records of the previous governments should also be kept in mind.
“We cannot encourage anything un-democratic in response to the government’s un-democratic behaviour,” he said.
He added that in these circumstances, the programs and future plans of the political parties is extremely important.
Haque said that the government has snatched away the people’s voting rights and there is no alternative to waging mass movements against it.