AL Central Executive Committee members Professor Mohd Ali Arafat and lawyer Tarana Haleem, Advisory Council members Professor Farzana Islam, renowned actor Ramendu Mazumdar, Dhaka South and North City AL president and general secretaries Abu Ahmad Mannafi and SM Mannan Kochi among others. talked to. event discussion.
AL Publicity and Publication Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, MP moderated the discussion.
On this day (January 10) in 1972, Bangabandhu, the country’s undisputed leader and supreme commander of the country’s liberation struggle, returned to the holy land of independent Bangladesh from London via New Delhi after 290 days of imprisonment in Pakistan’s jail.
Sheikh Hasina said that Khaleda Zia had conducted a farcical election on February 15, 1996 and tried to conduct another election on January 6, 2006, but both elections were canceled because the people ousted her for rigging the votes. Had given.
“When did they (BNP), who were repeatedly boycotted and rejected by the people for rigging votes, practice democracy?” he said. They don’t have any democracy within their party… They have some mercenaries who are out to spread disinformation against the Awami League to mislead the people,” he said.
Pointing fingers at the BNP, he said that the party which talks of democracy has been formed in the pocket of military dictators in violation of the democratic process.
On the contrary, his party practices democracy within the party and in the country, the prime minister said, adding that he has introduced transparent ballot boxes, voter lists with photographs and EVMs so that people can cast their vote correctly.
“We will accept the result of the vote,” she said.
