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Thursday, October 27, 2011
India got corridor, not transit: Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia addresses a rally at Mymensingh Circuit House premises Thursday. Photo: STAR Star Online Report
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia commented Thursday again that the government has given India corridor, not transit.
Though the government claimed that Bangladesh will turn into another Singapore by giving India transit, the country would in fact become ‘Sikkim’, Khaleda said while addressing a rally at Mymensingh Circuit House premises.
“I call for a war to save the country from foreign dominance. We’re committed to uphold the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh at any cost,” she vowed.
The opposition leader in parliament said, “The country will lose at least Tk 30,000 crore due to the transit. We want to know how much the country has earned from the transit till now.”
After the road marches, she said, a tougher agitation programme will be announced to compel the government to quit power.
Tens of thousands of enthusiastic leaders, workers and supporters of the opposition party attended the rally.
They bore colourful banners, posters, placards and portraits of late president Ziaur Rahman, Khaleda and their elder son Tarique Rahman.
Mymensingh, known as a city of education, was turned into a city of procession which made the rally a human sea.
Khaleda reiterated that no election will be held in the country under a political government. “Elections must be held under a non-party caretaker government and Awami League has to participate in that election. A neutral election commission must be constituted in consultation with all.”
She assured that if her party comes to power, Mymensingh will be promoted to a division while Ananda Mohan College a public university.
The BNP chief, who has been conducting a cross-country campaign to drum up support for the reinstatement of a non-partisan caretaker government, reached Mymensingh at around 2:40pm. She left her Gulshan residence at about 11:00am.
Earlier this month, the former prime minister led two 'road marches' -- to Sylhet and Rajshahi -- and addressed several wayside meetings for the oppositions’ demand to hold the next parliamentary election under the caretaker government system.
India got corridor, not transit: Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia addresses a rally at Mymensingh Circuit House premises Thursday. Photo: STAR Star Online Report
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia commented Thursday again that the government has given India corridor, not transit.
Though the government claimed that Bangladesh will turn into another Singapore by giving India transit, the country would in fact become ‘Sikkim’, Khaleda said while addressing a rally at Mymensingh Circuit House premises.
“I call for a war to save the country from foreign dominance. We’re committed to uphold the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh at any cost,” she vowed.
The opposition leader in parliament said, “The country will lose at least Tk 30,000 crore due to the transit. We want to know how much the country has earned from the transit till now.”
After the road marches, she said, a tougher agitation programme will be announced to compel the government to quit power.
Tens of thousands of enthusiastic leaders, workers and supporters of the opposition party attended the rally.
They bore colourful banners, posters, placards and portraits of late president Ziaur Rahman, Khaleda and their elder son Tarique Rahman.
Mymensingh, known as a city of education, was turned into a city of procession which made the rally a human sea.
Khaleda reiterated that no election will be held in the country under a political government. “Elections must be held under a non-party caretaker government and Awami League has to participate in that election. A neutral election commission must be constituted in consultation with all.”
She assured that if her party comes to power, Mymensingh will be promoted to a division while Ananda Mohan College a public university.
The BNP chief, who has been conducting a cross-country campaign to drum up support for the reinstatement of a non-partisan caretaker government, reached Mymensingh at around 2:40pm. She left her Gulshan residence at about 11:00am.
Earlier this month, the former prime minister led two 'road marches' -- to Sylhet and Rajshahi -- and addressed several wayside meetings for the oppositions’ demand to hold the next parliamentary election under the caretaker government system.
