'People foiled BNP-Jamaat blueprint on Oct 28 in 2006'

Workers' Party President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday said people of the country came out on the streets on October 28 in 2006 to foil the blueprint of BNP-Jamaat to hold an election.
But the Jamaat-Shibir cadres opened fire on the spontaneous procession of the people and killed Jubo Maitree leader Russell Ahmed Khan and others, he said.
He was speaking at a discussion to mark the Shaheed Russell Day at Shaheed Tajul auditorium in the city.
Unless the communal and fundamentalist forces are not fully defeated, the sacrifices of the October 28 martyrs would bear no fruit for the country, he said.
Conspiracies against the country are on and BDR carnage, fire at NCTB warehouse and bomb attack on lawmaker Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh are not sporadic incidents, he alleged.
Juba Maitree President Sadakat Hossain Khan Babul presided over the meeting while Workers' Party General Secretary Bimal Biswas and General Secretary of Dhaka city unit Kamrul Ahsan spoke.