Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said that declaring to oppose the election is tantamount to spoiling the election environment.
“Someone can boycott the election but no one has the right to oppose it. If someone declares to oppose the election it is tantamount to spoiling the election environment,” he said while talking to reporters after a meeting with the newly elected Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum (BSRF) committee at the Secretariat.
Referring to the remark of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleging that the government is trying to repress the opposition party by controlling the internet, Hasan said “When BNP was in power, there were 50 lakh internet users in the country but now 13 crore people are using the internet as the current government made it universal.”
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Replying to a question about the election decision of BNP, the minister said “We want BNP to join the election with its full power. At one point they are saying that they will not participate in the election, on the other hand they said they are being refrained from the election. We want the BNP in the election and participate in the election as per the constitution.”
“It is clear in the statement of the BNP secretary general that they want to participate in the election but they can’t do it due to an invisible power,” he said.
He also made a request to BNP to take the party to the people of the country after freeing it from invisible grip.
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