Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that there is no trace of democracy in the country. There is no security of public property. Government has shattered the prospects what the people have dreamt by overthrowing the autocratic rule in 1990. Government has failed the ideology of Liberation War by shattering the dream, the leader on Saturday said in a press release circulated marking Fall of Democracy Day to be observed on Sunday.

Former military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s regime was overthrown by a popular movement on 6 December 1990.

Khaleda Zia said democracy stumbled repeatedly in 44 years of independent Bangladesh. Anti-people rulers tried to stop the march of democracy. But people of this country overcame all barriers and made the road of democracy smooth. The democracy which was achieved through the sacrifice of numerous lives is now at stake.

She said the characteristics of an authoritative and one-party government are becoming visible at the Fascist rule of present government.

She called on the nation to be imbued with the spirit of the 1990 and join the struggle to reinstate democracy.