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Download PDF The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party opposition combine yesterday directed its grassroots level leaders to prepare for the final round of anti-government agitation programme which they hinted would begin after the September 18 grand rally.
At a preparatory meeting with the leaders of 20 districts of Dhaka division, they decided to bring Dhaka to a standstill by bringing 10 lakh people at the grand rally in bid to force the government accept their electoral reforms proposal.
The meeting was held at AL’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue with AL presidium member Abdur Razzak in the chair.
The Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina is expected to deliver her speech at the grand rally announcing the final agitation programme to compel BNP-Jamaat alliance government accept reforms in the caretaker government system and in the Election Commission (EC).
“The agitation programme which will be declared at the grand rally will be our final agitation to force the ruling alliance accept electoral reforms,” 14-party Coordinator Abdul Jalil said adding that they would do everything they can to force the government accept their reforms proposal.
Jalil, also general secretary of AL, said they have no alternative but to win a victory in the last fight. “It is our fight for our existence, either we win or become extinct,” Jalil told the meeting adding that they would direct the grassroots level leaders tomorrow so that they can prepare for it.
Saying they have been beaten up repeatedly, Abdur Razzak directed grassroots leaders to prepare to retaliate if attacked again. Razzak instructed them to mobilise village people so that they could take to the streets of Dhaka with sticks in their hands. He said a mass upsurge would force the government accept their demand for electoral reforms.
Tofail Ahmed said the prime minister is determined to hold the general elections with Justice KM Hasan as chief of the caretaker government and Justice MA Aziz as the chief election commissioner (CEC). “We are also determined to resist any elections in the country under their jurisdiction,” Tofail, an AL presidium member, said.
He said indefinite hartal would be declared on the day the caretaker government assumes power if KM Hasan is made chief of caretaker government.
Workers’ Party President Rashed Khan Menon said the grand rally will not be an ordinary one, the final round of agitation programme would be declared at the grand rally and the programme would take effect from the next day. He alleged the government has already begun arresting wholesale opposition workers.
Grassroots level leaders suggested that programmes should be declared to bring downtown Dhaka to a standstill for several days. They also demanded publishing advertisements with the photographs and names of those police personnel who tortured opposition leaders and activists during the EC Secretariat and Prime Ministers’ Office siege programmes.
Senior leaders including Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Suranjeet Sengupta, Motia Chowdhury, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Advocate Abdul Hamid, Obaidul Quader, Hasanul Haque Inu, Mofazzel Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bimal Biswas, Pankaj Bhattacharya, MA Gani spoke at the meeting.
Presidents and general secretaries of different districts also spoke at the meeting.
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