BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday warned that this time their party will resist any attempt to hold the next national election under a partisan government. “They (govt) want to hold the polls (national election) as before. They’ll again rig and steal votes like before. But we’ll stand up and resist it. We must do it for the sake of our existence and rights and to protect Bangladesh and its people,” he said. The BNP leader made the remarks in a brief rally on the premises of Nawabganj Shaheed Minra before the start of a march towards Boxanagar intersection by Dhaka District unit BNP. Fakhrul said injustice like depriving people of their voting rights can no longer be tolerated. “We’re repeatedly being attacked and beaten up. We’re not willing to be beaten anymore." He said the country’s people will be able to cast their votes freely if the election is held under a neutral government. “But it doesn’t happen now. They (AL) want to give their votes and also your votes. That's why people have started saying that if we had known before, we wouldn't have boarded your broken boat.” The BNP leader said their party will not have any objection if Awami League comes to power again with people’s votes through a credible election under a neutral government. He called upon the government to quit and dissolve the parliament and arrange the election under a non-party caretaker government by accepting BNP’s 10-point demand.   Read more: AL, its govt involved in BDR carnage: Fakhrul The BNP leader said their party together with like-minded opposition parties has launched a simultaneous movement to save the country and its people from the misrule of the Awami League government. He urged young people to come forward and make this movement a success.  “All the changes that have taken place in Bangladesh, from the Language Movement to the movement in the 90s and the Liberation War, everything has been done by the young people.” Fakhrul said they will establish a government of people by defeating the current ‘monstrous’ regime through a mass upsurge. The BNP leader alleged that the current government has destroyed the economy of the country through unbridled plundering and theft. “They (AL leaders) are getting rich suddenly and making a lot of money by indulging in corruption. The Awami League leaders who had no sandals on their feet, now ride expensive cars and build big houses by sucking the blood and stealing the money from the country’s people.” He also said the government is implementing mega projects in the name of devolvement to plunder public money. "But development is not benefiting common people.  If this government comes again, this country will not exist, the nation will not exist.” Later, several thousand leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies took out a silent procession from the Shaheed Minar that ended at the Boxanagar intersection after parading nearly a two-kilometer stretch of the road. Earlier on Saturday, the party observed a similar programme in all districts, except Dhaka, to press home their party’s 10-point demand.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Monday said partisan physicians are also politicising the  issue of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health and treatment abroad.Talking to journalists at the Secretariat Hasan said pro-BNP doctors are saying things as tutored by the party leaders.He said the opposition party has been doing politics over Khaleda’s health condition and on its demand to send her abroad for better treatment. READ: BNP fails to appreciate PM’s generosity to Khaleda: Info Minister At a press briefing on Sunday Dr FM Siddique, a member of Khaleda’s medical board, said that she has been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. The treatment for her condition is available in Germany, the UK and the US, he said.The BNP chief's other physicians said she has been suffering from liver, kidney and heart problems, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ophthalmological and dental complications.Hasan questioned the doctors’ choice of only three countries for Khelada’s treatment.Replying to a question he said “On Sunday I saw Professor Farhad Dalim Donar, executive director of Ziaur Rahman Foundation giving a statement on Khaleda’s health condition in the television. There was another statement signed by Fakhruzzaman, office secretary of Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) along with some other doctors. All of these physicians are involved with BNP politics as well as being top leaders of DAB.”According to their statements, there are treatments available for Khaleda Zia’s health issues only in the UK, Germany and the USA but not in India, Singapore and Bangkok, said Hasan.Meanwhile many people from the US and European countries now go to Singapore and Bangkok for their treatments, he said.“It is clear from the physicians’ statements yesterday (Sunday) that they were politically tutored as they mentioned only to the country’s where Tareque Rahman is or the countries that are near to him,” said the information minister.Now BNP has spread their “politics on Khaleda;s treatment” to the doctors too.Regarding BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s threat of creating disorder unless Khaleda is sent abroad for treatment, Hasan said “If he said so, a criminal case can be filed against him.”“He himself confessed to planning to create disorder which is a criminal offense”, he said.Khaleda, a 76-year-old former prime minister, was readmitted to Evercare Hospital on 13 November, six days after she had returned home from the hospital. READ:  Act right now to fund climate change adaptation: Info Minister urges developed nations On behalf of the family, Khaleda's younger brother, Shamim Iskander, submitted an application to the home ministry on November 11 urging the government to allow her to go abroad for better treatment.However, Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government will consider Khaleda Zia’s appeal if she submits a fresh petition after returning to jail.