BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday that the interim government would have the party’s continued support as long as it stood for democracy and handed over power in a democratic manner.
“This government is the result of our movement. We will assist them as long as they stay in favour of democracy and transfer power through a democratic process,” Fakhrul said during a sit-in programme in front of the party’s Nayapaltan office in the capital.
BNP organised the programme as part of its two-day event demanding that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides be tried on charges of carrying out a mass killing during the recent student protests.
Fakhrul said, “We want a change in government through elections. [For which] we are also willing to give a reasonable time to the interim government.
“Let me be clear, there is no alternative to democracy. There is no alternative to voting. We are fighting for that democracy.”
Expressing gratitude to the interim government, the BNP leader hoped that the interim government would hold a free and fair election and that people would vote in the polls to form the government.
He called for the removal of the “conspirators within the government,” who he claimed are working against country people.
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