B Chy to name nat'l body from Paltan rally on March 9
Staff Correspondent
Former president and founding secretary general of BNP Professor Badruddoza Chowdhury will announce his national committee for 'alternative stream' from a public rally in Paltan on March 9. The estranged BNP leader will dissolve the national committee within 2-3 months to form a political party of his own. "After my three-month interaction with the civil society, politicians, sociologists, professionals, leaders and general people, I have decided to form this national platform to introduce a different type of politics," he told a rally of about thousand people in front of his KC Memorial Hospital on the Biswa Road. With the people's cooperation, he hoped to form party units at all level across the country. The party will reflect aspirations of farmers, workers and the people against oppression and injustice, he said. "The main target of my party will be to eradicate poverty and establish a society that is free of corruption and crime," said Chowdhury, adding that he is yet to finalise a name out of 127 for his party. He also blamed the government for failing to run the country. "We did not free this country for the frustrating situation we are in now," he added. "Terror rules the country now. People are being killed in daylight. Criminals chop university teacher with butcher knife to take life. People are no longer safe. "No work can be done without kickbacks. There was corruption before. But now it has widened to the maximum extent. The government and persons close to the ruling alliance are involved in the corruption. "People have not voted anyone to power for accumulating family wealth. Nobody has been elected to rob people's money," he said. Terming the ruling alliance non-transparent, he alleged that the government attacks anyone who is critical of it. "They attack the motorcade of the (Opposition) politicians and behave rudely with people," Chowdhury said. People voted for development, improving law and order, and establishing their rights. "But the government failed in all aspects because it was busy filling its own pocket," he alleged. After the rally he told the press that he has advised his son Mahi Chowdhury, a ruling party parliamentarian, not to 'keep relationship with a party of hooligans and corrupt people'.
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