Yunus returned to Bangladesh on Saturday ending his four-day London tour, which featured the assembly with Rahman, the appearing chief of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP).
After the assembly with Rahman, BNP chief Amir Kharsu Mahmud Chowdhury and Yunus’ safety adviser Khalilur Rahman held a joint briefing and hinted that elections might be held in February subsequent yr.
Each Jamaat and Nationwide Citizen Occasion (NCP) have termed the assembly in London on Friday between Yunus and the BNP chief as his bias in direction of a specific social gathering. BNP is the arch rival of the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina‘s Awami League.
In an announcement on Saturday, Jamaat termed the joint press briefing by representatives of each Yunus and Rahman as a “breach of political norms” because the interim authorities chief notably superior the election time deviating from the deadline he introduced final week in Dhaka.
“Via this, he (Yunus) has expressed particular affection for a celebration (BNP), which has undermined his impartiality,” the assertion mentioned, including that as a substitute of saying the brand new deadline on the overseas soil, he ought to have achieved it after consulting different events on his return house. The NCP, which was launched in February, on Friday evening mentioned folks wouldn’t settle for any election date earlier than the implementation of the proposed July Constitution, referring to final yr’s violent student-led agitation that toppled Hasina’s regime. Hasina fled to India on August 5 and three days later, Yunus assumed cost because the chief of the interim authorities. The NCP emerged as a political offshoot of College students In opposition to Discrimination (SAD).
The NCP mentioned the Yunus-Rahman assembly laid extra significance on the election deadline however the “folks’s principal demand” within the post-Hasina regime “specifically justice and reform, didn’t obtain the identical significance”, including “the NCP finds this very disappointing.”
The BNP, a number of different events and the navy had been mounting stress on Yunus to conduct normal elections by December. He, nevertheless, in a nationwide tackle final week, mentioned the polls could be held in April subsequent yr.
Yunus beforehand mentioned the polls could be held in between December 2024 or June 2025 following the reforms and justice or the trial of the deposed regime leaders have been accomplished.
The Jamaat assertion mentioned it was “morally inappropriate” for Yunus as the pinnacle of the interim authorities to carry a joint press briefing with a single social gathering and added that such actions raised doubts amongst folks about equity and neutrality of the upcoming election course of.
The assertion got here after a gathering of the social gathering’s Central Government Council was held on Saturday morning.
The NCP, alternatively, mentioned it repeatedly noticed that the federal government is giving precedence to the place and calls for of “just one political social gathering” on the election subject.
“We consider that holding the Nationwide Meeting elections and not using a clear roadmap for the formulation of the ‘July Proclamation’, the implementation of the ‘July Constitution’ and the implementation of the trial will flip the favored rebellion right into a mere switch of energy and can suppress the folks’s want for state constructing,” the NCP assertion learn.
Yunus’ interim authorities had disbanded Awami League till its leaders have been uncovered to punitive actions for what it claimed have been their brutal actions to tame the rebellion.
Most Awami leaders have been arrested, some went underground or fled overseas because the interim authorities initiated a course of to attempt them, together with Hasina, in Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal on expenses like crimes in opposition to humanity.
