The New Nation - Internet Edition

Habibullah Mizan

Recognizing Monday's parliament election as most credible and peaceful common people yesterday urged both the wining and defeated parties work together for combating corruption, terrorism and arresting price hike.

While talking to this correspondent, Kayes Ahmed(45) , a businessman hailing from Sylhet said after testing jail life, the two top leaders of the country must take good lesson and kick out the controversial leaders who seriously demarked their long glorious political carriers.

If they fail to learn from the 1/11 change over, they must have to face people's anger, which may bring undemocratic forces in power again and again.

Delwar Hossain(36), owner of the Royal Touch, a cloth store at Elephant Road in Dhaka who claimed to vote for BNP said the election was held in fully peaceful atmosphere which was totally unimaginable before.

BNP will welcome it political rival Awami League for the betterment of the whole nation and work together to arrest the price hike, continue the present drive against corruption and combat the increasing threat of militancy from Bangladesh, he hoped.

He urged Awami League not to humiliate the BNP men for nurturing cherished democracy and continue the economic growth.

Rashedul Islam Ritu, a grass-root leader of BNP-backed student wing Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal expressed his full satisfaction over the news report of Sheikh Hasina's instant order her party men not to take revenge against BNP activists.

''If Hasina's order is followed by her party men, country will get new experience of politics which may bring Awami League another landslide victory in the next general election,'' Ritu observed.

Like me, many grass roots level BNP leaders will definitely vote for Awami League supported candidates in the upcoming Upazila election if country see no political violence, he determined.

Nurul Haque(80) a retired private company officer said ,''For the first time I voted Awami League for their commitment of lower price of essentials and fight against militancy in the name of Islam.''

He however warned the coming Awami League government of facing such defeat for their own if people see the local terrorists active again misusing power of the ruling party.

Expressing her dissatisfaction over BNP- led four party alliance's false allegation of vote rigging, election engineering Rehena Sultana , a house-wife living at Savar said if BNP hesitate to accept election results and fail to start new politics of peace and development being instigated by it extremist alliance partner , BNP must face the same fate of Muslim League, which once was the most popular party.

She prayed to the Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to follow the last presidential election in the United States , where the defeated Republican candidate MacCain instantly welcomed his rival Democrat Barack Obama and Obama also picked many Republicans in his team.