Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
yesterday asked it to initiate dialogue for holding a fresh election immediately.
She also announced that after the completion of the upazila polls, she would visit different districts across the country.
"Come to dialogue leaving the gun. The consequences will be dire if you think you can stay in office killing people. If you want to stay in power forcefully, people will be compelled to take to the street," she said while addressing a group of Thakurgaon Jatiya Party
...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament...
activists who joined the BNP at her Gulshan office.
Khaleda asked them to work together to ensure victory of the party-backed candidates in the upazila elections.
She said the only way out of the "current crisis" was an election. "People did not vote in the January 5 election. The people of the country as well as the whole world are talking about an inclusive election."
The former premier claimed that the opposition men had been "killed and kidnapped" and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
was violated in every step.
Khaleda alleged that the ruling party-backed candidates had won in some upazilas forcefully.
The BNP-supported candidates would have won in more upazilas if their agents had not been evicted from the polling centres.
She said: "Now I will visit Thakurgaon and hold a rally there. This way, I will visit all the districts."