The last general election was not a fair one as well as was not in line with the Constitution, says Jatiya Oikya Front leader Dr Kamal Hossain.
“The Jan 5 2014 national polls were not fair. It was not in line with the Constitution. So the Oikya Front has launched the seven demands to ensure a free and fair election. The Oikya Front will not return home until the demands are met,” he said on Saturday while addressing a public rally in Chattogram.
Gano Forum President Kamal Hossain, who leads the anti-Awami League alliance with the BNP, told the rally that the government will be forced to accept their alliance’s demands as the people are united.
The government will have to face trial for harassing people by implicating in ‘false’ charges.
“There’s nothing impossible to achieve when people get united as we had proved it in the past, including during the Liberation War,” he added.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, its senior leader, JSD President ASM Abdur Rab, Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna and other Oikya Front leaders addressed the rally held in front of the BNP offices at the port city’s Kazir Dewri.
It’s the second rally of the newly-formed political coalition after the maiden one in Sylhet on Oct 24.
The Oikya Front’s seven-point demand includes installation of a neutral interim government, dissolution of parliament, reconstitution the Election Commission, release of all the political prisoners, deployment of army and cancellation of the move to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMS) for holding the next polls in fair and acceptable manner.