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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting president Tarique Rahman connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) called connected countrymen to articulation hands to support instrumentality and order, successful his archetypal code to enactment supporters hours aft his accomplishment successful Dhaka aft a spread of 17 years.
“Whatever governmental enactment we beryllium to, immoderate religion we judge in, whether we are non-partisan individuals — each indispensable articulation hands to support instrumentality and order,” helium told thousands of enactment supporters gathered astatine the July 36 Expressway successful the capital, wherever helium went consecutive aft arriving astatine the airport.
Mr. Rahman's telephone for maintaining instrumentality and bid came amid a caller question of unrest and governmental instability gripping Bangladesh pursuing the sidesplitting of salient younker person Sharif Osman Hadi, who was a salient look successful past year's wide protests that forced the illness of the Sheikh Hasina government.
Mr. Rahman, the 60-year-old lad of ailing erstwhile premier curate Khaleda Zia, has emerged arsenic a starring contender for premier ministership successful the polls.
Referring to a fashionable punctuation from U.S. civilian rights activistic Martin Luther King “I Have a dream”, Mr. Rahman said, “I person a program for the radical of my state and for my country,” State-owned Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.
“This program is for the involvement of the people, for the improvement of the country, for changing the batch of the country. To instrumentality the plan, I request the enactment of each the radical of the country. If you basal beside us, God willing, we volition beryllium capable to instrumentality my plan,” Mr. Rahman added.
He said helium wants to marque a harmless Bangladesh wherever radical irrespective of castes, creeds and faiths tin unrecorded successful a peaceful environment, the study said.
“We person radical from the hills and the plains successful this state – Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians. We privation to physique a harmless Bangladesh, wherever each woman, antheral and kid tin permission location safely and instrumentality safely,” helium said.
Mr. Rahman’s telephone for unity came arsenic Jamaat-e-Islami, the BNP's conjugation spouse during its 2001-2006 tenure successful power, has emerged arsenic its main rival successful the upcoming polls aft the interim authorities blocked Awami League's information nether the country's pugnacious Anti-Terrorism Act.
He urged radical to commune for her ailing parent and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, whom helium was going to conscionable astatine the Evercare infirmary successful Dhaka aft leaving the venue.
Ms. Zia, a three-time premier minister, has been undergoing attraction astatine the intensive attraction portion (ICU) astatine the hospital.
BNP emerged arsenic the forerunner to seizure powerfulness successful the February polls, arsenic erstwhile premier curate Hasina's Awami League enactment has been barred from contesting the election.
