<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday expressed optimism that their planned one-point movement will lead the fall of the government.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We’re very hopeful that we’ll be able to defeat this government and force it to resign, dissolve parliament and arrange the next polls under a non-party neutral government through our one-point movement as the people are now united,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BNP leader made the remarks while talking to reporters after a meeting with the liaison committee of a faction of Gonoforum and People's Party at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said their party is also confident that a pro-people government will be formed through a credible election under a neutral administration to give democracy an institutional shape and restore democracy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the meeting, Fakhrul said they discussed the next course of action of the ongoing simultaneous movement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said they also talked about how and when they can initiate the one-point movement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gonoforum general Secretary Advocate Subrata Chowdhury said there will be no election without a non-partisan neutral government and people will not participate in any polls under the current regime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That’s why we’re going to launch the one-point movement soon,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chowdury said they reached a consensus with BNP to present a joint statement of their movement within a short possible time and then intensify their anti-government movement involving people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“A public opinion has been created in favour of holding a fair election under a neutral government. “We’re also getting cooperation from the international community in this regard,” he observed. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>