‘75% people want polls right now’

Claiming that about 75 percent of the people want the election to be held now, BNP Chairperson’s advisory council member Zainul Abedin Farroque yesterday urged the chief adviser to take steps in this regard instead of “wasting time in the name of reform”.

“About 75 percent of the people want elections right now,” he told a token sit-in programme.

Bangladesh Jatiya Nagorik Porishad organised the programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club, demanding a roadmap for the parliamentary election, and the arrest of those of the Awami League regime who used illegal weapons on people and their trial before the polls.

Farroque, also a former opposition chief whip in parliament, said the government’s reform initiative is almost at its final stage.

He urged the interim government not to take any such reform agenda that could delay the election through a 1/11-style conspiracy.

The BNP leader urged the chief adviser to take the final decision on holding the election by December this year. “Please make arrangements for that,” he said.

Opposing the government’s decision to provide a corridor for Myanmar’s Rakhine, he called upon the chief adviser to leave the matter to the party that will come to power and form the government through the election under him.