Dhaka, Dec. 8 -- BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday said the country is witnessing an abnormal situation due to the absence of democracy and a lack of accountable governance, warning that several plots are underway to undermine the democratic system and ensure its collapse.

Speaking at the concluding session of BNP's second day of the 'Plan to Build the Country' programme, he said promoting the idea that everyone except one particular party is bad is very harmful to democracy. "Only democracy can ensure accountability in society and in the state. It is only a democratically elected government that must answer to the people and ordinary citizens," the BNP leader said.

He said real improvement in the country and people's lives- ...