He further said it is a reality that the mass uprising happened not only for an election. On the other hand, there is another cruel reality that the previous Awami League regime was able to establish fascism by forming a government, repeatedly without holding elections to deprive people from their political and other rights.
“In democratic political practice to establish people’s rights, election is of course a prime issue. It won’t be a realistic political thinking that if election is considered as the purpose of going to power for a single party only. Rather people get scope to practice their political rights through an election,” he said.
At the same time, the relationship of ownership between the people and the state is established through practicing voting rights, he added.
Tarique Rahman underscored the need for empowering people politically to keep a state and a government away from the clutch of fascism.
BNP standing committee member Professor AZM Zahid Hossain, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar, BNP’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, joint secretary general Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie, Jamaat’s Dhaka South City unit Ameer Nurul Islam Bulbul, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) secretary general Kader Gani Chowdhury, former Jatiya Press Club president Kamal Uddin Sabuj, former BFUJ president M Abdullah, DUJ general secretary Khurshid Alam and journalist leaders- poet Abdul Hye Sikder and Jahangir Alam Pradhan addressed the programme.