This photo taken on November 26, 2022 shows a part of the people’s gathering in the mass rally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Town Hall ground in Cumilla city, on Saturday. – Collected photo.

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that there would be no elections in the country without the resignation of Sheikh Hasina.

‘We [BNP] want to make it clear that there will be no elections in this country until resignation of [Prime Minister] Sheikh Hasina,’ BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a mass rally in Cumilla.

The party organised the mass rally on Cumilla Town Hall ground as a part of the central programme of holding mass rallies in the party’s organisational divisions.

Fakhrul, at this time, also said that the non-partisan caretaker government system should be restored, parliament should be dissolved and a new Election Commission should be formed to hold the next general elections.

Regarding the economic situation of the country, Fakhrul said, ‘The economic sector of the country has become perforated. There is nothing called treasury anymore, everything has been looted.’

Claiming that the government is scared because of the BNP rallies, Fakhrul said that the government was trying to reduce the number of people in the BNP rally creating various ostracises, but the attendance of the people was increasing.

He said that the government was lodging one case after another against the leaders and activists of BNP to prevent the gathering in the December 10 Dhaka rally and was harassing them by raiding from door to door.

Thousands of leaders and activists from neighbouring Brahmanbaria, Chandpur, Noakhali, Feni and Lakshmipur were present at the divisional rally.