AL can't win next polls: Moudud

Dhaka, June 20 (bdnews24.com) ? A senior opposition leader has said no strategy of ruling Awami League to win the next national elections will succeed.

"The ruling party is devising various strategies apprehending its defeat in the next elections. But these strategies will not work," BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed said on Monday.

He was addressing a discussion on 'Cultural imperialism and distressed humanity' organised by Dhaka University (DU) unit of the Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Sangstha (JASAS) at Dhaka Reporters Unity.

Moudud, also a former law minister, said the government is giving India transit neglecting the national interests.

It also took a US$ 1 billion loan from India on tough conditions.

"Thus India, as a large state, is taking control of Bangladesh," he said urging all to be united against the move.

Mentioning that Bangladesh's trade gap with India is US$ 4 billion, the BNP leader said the government has done everything last two and a half years what is needed to weaken the state.

"It (the government) is signing different agreements with India neglecting the national interests. As a small state our security is threatened. The foreign policy of the government is weaker than that during its previous tenure of 1996-2001."

Moudud said: "Bangladeshi people have no rivalry with Indians. We want to be a friend of India, but not neglecting the national interests."

He criticised the government for politicising the judiciary and the public administration.

BNP joint secretary general Aman Ullah Aman, JASAS general secretary Monir Khan and singer Rizia Pervin, among others, spoke at the discussion.

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