Implement referendum verdict or face a united movement

MYMENSINGH, June 27: Leaders of the 11-party opposition alliance on Saturday warned that a united street movement would continue if the referendum verdict is not implemented.

Speaking at a divisional rally in Mymensingh, they also urged the government to implement the referendum verdict and take steps to ease public suffering.

Addressing the BNP, several speakers claimed that people had voted for the party based on commitments made in the July Charter.

They also alleged that the BNP was ignoring the referendum verdict, including the July Charter, and accused it of adopting “fascist” practices.

Speaking as the chief guest, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis Ameer Muhammad Mamunul Haque said they wanted the peaceful implementation of what he described as the will of “70 percent of the people”.

He warned that if the government failed to implement the referendum verdict and if the BNP deprived people of their voting rights “like Sheikh Hasina”, the party would face the same political consequences.

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar alleged that the BNP, with the support of the interim government, had manipulated the election.

He said his party accepted the election results in the interest of political stability and building a “new Bangladesh” free from political conflict, corruption and inequality.

Porwar warned that if the referendum verdict was not implemented, a united street movement would continue.

He also alleged that if the BNP attempted to undermine the voting rights of what he described as “70 percent of the people”, its leadership would face the same fate as Sheikh Hasina.�" UNB