Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the countrymen would go to their respective polling centres on January 7 without paying attention to the BNP’s call for a noncooperation movement.
“The countrymen know them (BNP) well. They did not pay attention to such calls of BNP in the past. I believe that the people would go to their respective polling centres and cast their votes timely,” Kamal told reporters responding to a query over BNP’s noncooperation movement.
While talking to reporters at his ministry office in Dhaka, Kamal said the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) and Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (DESA) will take appropriate measures if BNP men do not pay the utility service bills.
“If they do not settle their gas, electricity and water bills, WASA and the electricity department will treat them (BNP) the same way they handle other customers,” said the home minister.
Earlier in the day, BNP announced a noncooperation movement to foil the 12th parliamentary election scheduled for January 7.
In a virtual press conference, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi called upon his party men to abstain from appearing before the court.
Simultaneously, he also encouraged the countrymen to refrain from paying taxes and utility service bills.
