Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain today wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calling for dialogue over the upcoming general election.
“We expect your (Hasina) effective steps to hold talks for holding the election in a free, fair and participatory manner,” Dr Kamal wrote in the letter.
The letter was sent to the Dhanmondi political office of Hasina, who is also the president of ruling Awami League. The Daily Star has a copy of the letter.
Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports, Jaglul Haider, a member of the Oikyafront’s coordination body, confirmed delivery of two such letters to Awami League office.
Awami League Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap confirmed the daily that two letters were delivered in person at their office this evening.
WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LETTER?
Apart from inviting premier Hasina for taking steps towards dialogue, Dr Kamal wrote about Bangabandhu’s ideology and the political situation in Bangladesh.
In the letter, Kamal said: “Bangabandhu taught us how healthy politics unite a nation and turn it into a force to realise people’s legitimate rights.”
“How the unhealthy politics has split the nation and plunged it into a great crisis is known to all of us,” Kamal added.
“It is our national challenge to rid the crisis; and to face the challenge, the Jatiya Oikyafront has placed its seven-point charter and 11-point goal,” he said.
Democracy is one of the main spirits that encouraged us to go for the freedom fight and to sacrifice our lives; and the moto of the democracy is to arrange of a free, fair and impartial elections, he said.
The elected public representatives would enforce their power in favour of people. They would formulate law to protect the people from exploitation and would govern the country which are our constitutional pledge, he said in the letter.
What are their goals and demands?
The 11-point goal announced by the alliance includes ensuring checks and balances in the state power, decentralisation of administration, freeing MPs from the stringent restrictions imposed on them under article 70 of the constitution, formation of a constitutional commission to make appointments to all constitutional and other important posts and full independence of the judiciary.
The alliance also announced a seven-point demand, including the one for holding the next parliamentary election under a nonpartisan government, dissolution of parliament before the polls and recasting the Election Commission.
