BNP calls on govt to quit alleging failure on all fronts
The BNP yesterday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas government for its alleged failure in every respect, especially in controlling road accidents and resolving crises in the transport sector. The party, the arch rival of the ruling Awami League, also lent its full support to the ongoing students agitation for safety road. This government has totally failed and collapsedWe are holding the government responsible for the incidents over the quota issue and road accidents and demanding their resignation. We are lending our full support to the ongoing students movement, said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press conference at the partys central office. The BNP leader made the demand five days after a tragic road accident on Airport Road that triggered a countrywide students movement for road safety.
On Sunday, two students were crushed to death and 13 more injured when a speeding bus ran over them at Airport Road in Kurmitola area.
The BNP leader said they were not only demanding the resignation of shipping minister Shajahan Khan or the road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader. We are demanding resignation of the entire government as they have failed in every aspect.
Terming the students movements on the quota issue and road safety as fancy one, he said they forced the government to bow to them by waging vigorous movements.
He accused the government of creating anarchy and making peoples life miserable and said people were suffering from a sense of insecurity.
Mirza Alamgir regretted that students were carrying of a movement for three days and people were suffering but there was no move to resolve the problem.
The government is talking sweet but not doing anything required to resolve the problem. The incidents in Narayanganj and Shanirakhra would not have occurred had the government taken measures on the first day, he said.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the BNP leader demanded the resignation of the shipping minister, holding him responsible for the anarchy in the transport sector and called upon the government to talk with the agitating students to resolve the crisis.
BNP leadersMirza Abbas, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amanullah Aman, Rizvi Ahmed, among others, were present at the press conference.
Meanwhile, speaking at a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club, BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, once an influential leader of the bus owners association, also held workers leaders like Shajahan Khan responsible for alleged mismanagement in the transport sector.
An anarchic situation is prevailing in the transport sector but it seems that there is no one to look after it. Drivers, police, law enforcers are doing whatever they want and there is no solution to it. Most of the tempo drivers are below 15 years, he claimed.
He regretted that people like Shajahan Khan introduced such a system that drivers are changed soon after a bus arrives at the terminal and there is no way of knowing who ultimately drives it.
He advised the government to introduce new provisions in its proposed law to cancel the licences of buses having dents on both sides, maintain categories for bus and truck drivers, impart proper training and provide appointment through owners. Zia Nagorik Forum organized the meeting at the Jatiya Press Club with its president Miah Mohammed Anwar in the chair.
