Workers’ Party President Rashed Khan Menon
Plot against democracy, non-communal politics still on: Memon
Workers’ Party President Rashed Khan Menon on Monday said a conspiracy against democracy and non-communal politics is still on and the conspirators will strike before the golden jubilee of the independence.
“Conformists are of course normally there… but now the rightists and so-called leftists are getting united to execute the conspiracy,” he said while speaking on the thanksgiving motion on the President’s speech in Parliament.
Menon said although BNP contested the Dhaka city elections, they were not visible on the voting day the way they were missing in the last general election. “They’ve adopted a technique to go to power through the backdoor making the election questionable and spoiling it,” he said.
He also admitted that the number of voters was very thin in the city elections, but it does not mean that the technique of BNP worked well. “The supporters of Awami League and the 14-party didn’t also come to cast their votes.”
The Workers’ Party chief warned that distancing voters from practising their democratic rights will invite a disaster for democracy. “It’ll make irrelevant not only the elections but also political parties.”
Talking about the country’s banking sector, he said the government borrowings from the banking sector have reached the targeted ceiling in the first six months of the fiscal year.