Join JS with new formula
Awami League (AL) Acting General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday urged Opposition Leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to join the parliament with new formula to ensure participation of all political parties in the next general elections.
“Come in the parliament with new formula or proposal if you [Khaleda] have to hold next general elections with the participation of all political parties and form the next election commission,” said Hanif adding that the opposition will not get benefit anyway from its movement to restore the caretaker government system.
Addressing a discussion before the party's central office in Bangabandhu Avenue in the city, the AL leader said the caretaker government has been declared illegal by the highest court of the country.
“Any sort of row over holding of the next national polls can be resolved through discussion not by organising road marches. So, BNP will have to join the parliament to discuss the issue,” Hanif said.
Dhaka City unit AL organised the discussion marking the 47th birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, youngest son of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and youngest brother of Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina.
Russel was brutally killed along with most other family members, including Bangabandhu, on August 15, 1975 when he was a student of class four.
Hanif said Khaleda is organising the road march only to establish her "corrupt" sons politically again and foil the trial of 1971 war criminals.
Other AL leaders at the discussion urged the government to bring back the fugitive killers of Bangabandhu and his family members to the country and execute the punishment given by the court against them.
Among others, AL leaders Qamrul Islam, Ahmed Hossain, AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Sawpan, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya spoke at the programme with city AL acting president MA Aziz in the chair.
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