Bangladesh News

The Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged President Iajuddin Ahmed to take immediate steps for a non-partisan person to take oath as the chief adviser to the next caretaker government to put an immediate end to the countrywide violence.

AL General Secretary and also the 14-party coordinator Abdul Jalil demanded that the president bring the prevailing volatile situation quickly to an end to keep the democratic system prevailing in the country.

Hasina said as Justice KM Hasan declined to take charge as the head of the caretaker government, the president should ask next person eligible as per the constitution immediately.

She was talking to the reporters at her Sudha Sadan residence in the capital following a meeting of the party presidium members after the AL general secretary met the president in the evening.

“We do not want conflicts to be alive, we want peace. The sooner the president takes steps to conduct the swearing in as per the constitution, the better for the conflict to end,” the AL president said.

Hasina also said that until an interim government takes over, the AL-led 14-party combine’s ongoing blockade programmes would be continued. She also urged the countrymen to resist the ‘looters’ of BNP-Jamaat.

Protesting the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s speech at the end of her five-year mandate, Hasina said that Khaleda Zia invited violence as she knows that the people would not vote them in the upcoming polls due to their wide scale corruption and misrule.

The AL president also asked all the state employees including the law enforcers and members of the armed forces to maintain neutrality and not to stand against people who have been fighting for their voting rights.

Senior leaders of the 14-party combine were present at the briefing.