Politics

Polls manifesto: BNP to scrape ‘black’ laws

BNP has pledged to scrap the Digital Security Act, Official Secrets Act and Special Power Acts and others black laws. 

It will remove all barriers to freedom of information by amending the Right to Information Act.

The party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday pledged this at the polls manifesto unveiling programme at Lakeshore Hotel Gulshan in the capital.  

He said, BNP won’t take political revenge if they come in power in the upcoming national polls. 

“We want to say clearly that, BNP will build an improved democratic system as our programmes are versatile and better,” he said.    

He vowed to put an end to extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearances, and inhumane physical and mental torture.

BNP’s promises also include ensuring the balance between the power of the President and the Prime Minister, making public the probe reports on BDR carnage and Bangladesh Bank reserve heist and conducting more investigations into the incidents.

BNP’s standing committee members Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain, Nazrul Islam Khan, Dr Moeen Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury were present during the unveiling of polls manifesto.