, July 27 -- BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday said those who are afraid of elections should not be there in politics and instead work as pressure groups or NGOs.

"Those who are afraid of elections do not need to do politics. Let them work as pressure groups. They can work as NGOs. You cannot do politics, avoid elections, and at the same time obstruct the democratic process. That's unacceptable," he said.

He made the remarks while speaking at a discussion organised by the Bhasani Janashakti Party and Bhasani Anushari Parishad at Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU), marking the first anniversary of the July Uprising.

Khosru, a BNP Standing Committee member, warned that in countries where mass revolutions took place and e...