Realising this, the ruling alliance is opposing the proposals for reforms of the caretaker system and the Election Commission (EC), he told as public meeting at Mohimaganj.

He reiterated his party's stance that there would not be any election without reforms.

The meeting was organised by Gobindagnaj upazila Krishak League, AL's peasant front, to commemorate the death of three farmers when police opened fire to quell demonstrations there for fertiliser in 1996 during the tenure of the then BNP government. Forty people were injured in the incident.

Nasim alleged that whenever BNP comes to power, there is crises of fertiliser, fuel and electricity and poor farmers are the worst sufferers.

Farmers are staging demonstrations, putting up road barricades and besieging dealers' shops and power supply offices but the government is unconcerned, he said.

After losing public support, the BNP-Jama'at alliance government has resorted to heinous tactics to cling to power. They are sheltering militants and criminals to use them in the next election for vote rigging, he claimed.

Militancy will not stop unless godfathers of militants are arrested, Nasim said.