BNP Government Called 'Londongo Government' by Its Own Followers: Manju at Press Club

AB Party Chairman Mojibur Rahman Manju has said that the BNP government is now being called a 'Londongo government' by its own followers and supporters.

He made the remarks on Wednesday (4 November) at noon while delivering the chair's speech at a discussion titled 'A Year On from the July Charter: An Exchange with the Young Stakeholders of the Mass Uprising', organised by the AB Party at the Abdus Salam Hall of the National Press Club.

Mojibur Rahman Manju said: 'In the past, we mocked the interim government for its inexperience and called it an NGO-gram government. And now this BNP government is being called a Londongo government by its own followers and supporters.'

Calling for people to move away from the idea that elections alone will solve all of the country's problems, he said that at various times in the past elections had been demanded from Sheikh Hasina and Ershad, and Khaleda Zia too had been compelled to hold a fair election under a caretaker government.

He said that even though two or three comparatively good elections were held under caretaker governments, the expected change and repair of the state structure did not happen.

'Now we cannot remain stuck in disappointment, regret and mudslinging. After losing one battle, preparing for the next is the character of a soldier. So we have to think afresh with a cool head and a plan. Elections did not bring a solution, and the mass uprising did not bring the expected solution either — so what is the path ahead? We have to find where the mistakes of the past were,' he added.

Addressing the stakeholders of the July mass uprising, the AB Party chairman said: 'Before, there was a mass uprising, then an election, and then the July Charter was prepared. This time, instead of going down that path, a detailed preparation, plan and charter for repairing the state must be made first. That charter must carry not only the signatures of 33 political parties, but also the signatures of the four crore people who voted 'yes' in the referendum.'

'A detailed charter must be prepared by collecting the signatures of these four crore people. It must contain a clear outline of how unions will run, how schools and colleges will be managed, and how universities, districts and upazilas will change. Whether the change will be implemented over five years or ten must also be determined. The government of Bangladesh for the next five or ten years will be run on the basis of that plan,' he said.

Mojibur Rahman Manju also remarked that change in the Bangladesh of the coming days is not possible with the current constitution and politicians of the current mould. He called on politicians of the new generation to rise above their own mistakes and dream of a new awakening.