BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has questioned the necessity of holding a Constituent Assembly election, asking whether Bangladesh had ever become a newly independent state again.

“A Constituent Assembly is only needed when a country gains independence, has no laws, no constitution, and no government,” he argued. Rizvi accused the ruling party of attempting to erase the memory of Bangladesh’s greatest achievement in 1971 by introducing the idea of a “second independence” through a new Constituent Assembly.

He criticized government-aligned student leaders and newly formed political groups for promoting this idea, asking, “On whose behalf are you speaking?” Addressing the government, he accused it of playing a deceptive game with election dates, mentioning shifting timelines from March to June to December. He insisted that any reforms should be carried out by an elected government, while the current regime could only propose them.