No one can stop national polls: BNP's Salahuddin
The people of this country have proven with their blood that no one from this country can abolish democracy, he says
The national elections must be held within the stipulated time as no one has the strength to stop the polls, BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed said today (30 August).
"Despite various conspiracies regarding the elections, the polls will be held before next Ramadan and the people of the country will guard the elections," he said at the inaugural session of the district BNP triennial council at the historic Moktarpara ground in Netrakona.
Salahuddin said more than three thousand people have been victims of extrajudicial killing until the 2024 uprising.
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A massive number of people become victims of enforced disappearances, murders and political torture, he said.
According to the UN, more than 1,400 people embraced martyrdom in the 2024 Mass Uprising while more than twenty thousand were injured.
"We have gone through such state injustice," he said.
Highlighting his own experience, he said, "I myself was a victim of enforced disappearance. I was forced to live in exile for almost ten years, a part of my long life. We do politics of Bangladesh first and Bangladesh last. Our purpose, politics and address is Bangladesh first, Bangladesh first and foremost."
Salahuddin said, "We will not have any master abroad, we will have friends abroad. The people of this country have proven with their blood that no one from this country can abolish democracy."
As a result of the Mass Uprising, the fascist forces were forever overthrown from Bangladesh, he said.
