DHAKA, Dec 20, 2023 (BSS)-Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said the people of the country will never support BNP’s non-cooperation movement.

“Although the BNP has been trying to enforce programmes one after another to thwart the national elections but people will never response. They are also trying to destabilize the situation,” he told journalists at his secretariat office here. 

Replying to a question, the minister said that when everything is going well and people are engaging in elections with festive mood, the BNP calls for non-cooperation movement, adding, “In this situation, if gas, electricity and water supply are stopped, then what will be happened to those who have called for creating a trouble ?”

He said that the Election Commission (EC) is working for holding a peaceful and violence free polls and the government is cooperating to the EC.

“People will resist those who are creating anarchy. Some people engage in BNP politics, but love the country are becoming embracing. Most of them are boycotting the elections. See how the BNP is being divided in different groups,” he said.

Kamal said, "You have been observing for a few days, but I have always been saying that the people of this country will not vote them. People of this country have turned their face back from BNP. And then the BNP took decision not to participate in the elections and is continuously giving programme one after another to create an unrest situation to foil the elections.”

“I think our people will vote on time and the election commission will present a fair and beautiful poll,” the minister said.

He said that since October 28, they have been continuously wreaking havoc. The vehicles were set on fire along with helper of the bus and now they have started arson attacks on trains and removed railway fishplates.

Kamal said you have observed that four people were burnt in a moving train, adding, “Earlier, a similar incident took place in Gazipur. But they are continuously doing this kind of sabotage acts.”

He said that the security forces will find out those responsible for the incident in which four people were died.

The minister commented that they are trying to create an unstable situation in the country.

He also said, "The Prime Minister came to power with the people's mandate and she thinks that the people's mandate is the only way to change the state power."