Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called for a ‘national unity’ to press home one-point demand of ousting the Awami League government in the context of conducting mass arrest and torture on opposition leaders and activists across the country.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the call in a statement sent to the media on Friday night.

Any party could express their consent to the call by issuing a statement due to lack of time and scope of communication now, Fakhrul said, adding that a joint statement would be issued soon with the signatures of all the parties who would express their consent to the call.

‘This historic declaration and document of national unity will speed up the liberation of the country and the nation,’ he said.

‘We are calling for the formation of a national unity of all the democratic political parties, social and cultural organisations, individuals and forces of the country at this critical moment for the nation on the basis of one-point for the greater national interest, restoration of looted democracy and voting rights, liberation of disenfranchised people and the nation,’ Fakhrul said.

All the parties and alliances of the simultaneous movement under the leadership of BNP, all the left and right-leaning political parties, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and other religious and Islamic political parties and organisations had been requested to join the movement, he added.