Oikya Prokriya planning rally, human chain
Jatiya Oikya Prokriya will hold a series of programmes, including rally and human chain, in the coming days as the government did not take any initiative to meet its demands within the stipulated timeframe.
The platform on September 22 issued an ultimatum to the government to meet its three-point demand, including formation of a polls-time neutral government, by September 30.
Leaders of the platform said its Convener Dr Kamal Hossain, now in Thailand for treatment, would announce the programmes upon his return.
"We have planned to form a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club ... the next course of action will be announced from there," ABM Mostafa Amin, member-secretary of Jatiya Oikya Prokriya, told this newspaper yesterday.
He also alleged that the authorities concerned didn't give them permission to hold a rally in Mymensingh town yesterday.
Asked, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, member-secretary of Juktofront and convener of Nagorik Oikyo, said Juktofront and Jatiya Oikya Prokriya want to hold a rally in Sylhet on October 5 and then in the capital.
The demands of the Oikya Prokriya include reconstitution of the Election Commission and dissolution of parliament before the election schedule is announced.
Meanwhile, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said a free and fair election is not possible under this government.
"If the national election is held under this government, it will be held in a controlled manner," he said at a blood donation campaign organised by Projonmo Bangladesh, a pro-BDB platform of youths, at Chairman Bari playground in the capital.
Terming the government cheat, Badruddoza, also chairman of Juktofront, said, "You [the Awami League-led government] told us that a fresh inclusive election would be held soon. Five years have gone by, but you are still clinging to power ... What a great cheating! You are a cheat government."
BDB Joint Secretary General Mahi B Chowdhury said there will be no national unity if anti-liberation forces are included in the unity process either directly or indirectly.
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