The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain said Sunday that the caretaker government should follow the path of the constitution if it thinks that it is a non-party administration.

He said that an unexpected situation might originate if the government did anything beyond the constitutional mandate.

He made the statement at a meeting with Tejgaon thana unit BNP at his NAM apartment in the city.

Referring to the recent statement by Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury that this government would not do anything that would go against the sovereignty, Delwar said only an elected government can protect the sovereignty.

Pointing at the transit facilities as sought by India, the foreign adviser had made the statement. The BNP and its allies are against any move by the government to give transit facilities to India.

Delwar again came down heavily on the government for its failure to arrest soaring prices of daily commodities and asked the party activists to prepare for any future call for a bigger movement.

"You have to stand ready for implementing any future programme," he said.

He repeated his demand for the release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her two sons for their treatment abroad.

He said that they would not accept any decision to move Tarique Rahman to any city hospital from the prison cell of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Medical University.

BNP's joint secretary general Nazrul Islam Khan, Krishak Dal general secretary Shamsuzzaman Dudu, acting office secretary Rizvi Ahmed and Tejgaon unit president Jalal Ahmed also spoke on the occasion.