Bangladesh National Awami Party (Bangladesh NAP) called for national unity to combat the present crisis moment following coronavirus spread.
In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the party’s chairman Jebel Rahman Ghaani and Secretary General M Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan said that it is urgent to unite the nation in the dire crisis.
The united efforts of all are important in protecting the people of Bangladesh from the global pandemic coronavirus infection. For this reason, the national unity with all the democratic political parties is a timely need, they said.
The two leaders also said, “As a nation, we are facing serious crisis because of coronavirus. The magnitude of it has left our nation facing a fundamental and long-standing unresolved question. Will we be able to unite as a nation again like 1971 to tackle this menace? The government and others outside the government are now on the same level. Forgetting all social, political, cultural, economic differences, now is the time to build national unity.”
They called upon the Prime Minister to take initiative for the national unity. They said, in this the larger population is not aligned with the national effort. Everyone seems to be doing national duty at home and has placed the rest on government, doctors and administration.
They further said that the government and the ruling party would have to take the initiative for the national unity. They must call on all political parties to come to the same platform with open mind to deal with this catastrophe. “We urge the government to take initiative,” they said.
They NAP leaders believe that it is possible to control the coronavirus in Bangladesh with the concerted effort of all. It is to be remembered that failure to form national unity in this period of the nation will prove to be a dilemma of politics. The state, the government and the politics must come together in the time of a national disaster, they added.
