The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Gazipur

BNP chairperson’s advisor Brig General (retd) ASM Hannan Shah hoped that members of the ruling government would return to their respective positions handing over power to elected representatives by holding the stalled general election. “I hope the government would hand over power to elected representatives through holding a fair election as per people’s expectation,” Shah told journalists on Monday when he went to appear in the district court in a graft case filed against him during the current purge against corruption and crime.

Criticising the interim government’s “dillydallying” in allowing BNP to open party office, he alleged the government is playing “double standard” in this matter.

He forewarned that the BNP activists would not accept if the government handed over the party office “to the sycophants”.

In reply to a question regarding the right of the expelled BNP

leaders to make comment about party affairs, Hannan Shah said those leaders would have to seek pardon to the party as they, he said, have tarnished the party image through their behaviour.

Asked how the detained party men will be freed if the BNP chief and ex-PM, Khaleda, lost the legal battle, he said the countrymen would know in right time how to do it.