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Download PDF The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party coalition along with several other political parties is heading towards a one-point movement to force the Chief Adviser to the caretaker government (CA) Iajuddin Ahmed to resign as they think his ‘absolute partisan role’ is the main barrier to creating a congenial atmosphere for a free and fair election.
“The president is performing unlawful activities as the chief adviser from Bangabhaban under the direction of Hawa Bhaban only to implement the BNP-Jamaat alliance’s conspiracies to rig the next election. That’s why we have no option but to wage a movement against him,” 14-party coordinator AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil told The Daily Star.
The 14-party combine leaders met the chief adviser several times and asked him to bring a drastic change in the administration from top to field levels to create a level playing field for a free and fair election but he has not taken any steps to make the administration neutral, said a senior leader of the combine.
“The chief adviser did not remove any of the most controversial home, establishment, cabinet and EC secretaries. Rather he has appointed BNP-Jamaat alliance’s most loyal officials as inspector general of police, Dhaka metropolitan police commissioner, and director general of Rapid Action Battalion and to other key positions in the police and civil administration.
“The field level administration designed by the previous government has been kept largely intact as transfer of the deputy commissioners, superintendents of police, officers-in-charge and upazila nirbahi officers have been made from one district to another keeping them in the same positions through unilateral decisions of the chief adviser while the other advisers remained in the dark.”
A 14-party delegation led by Abdul Jalil is likely to meet the chief adviser today to remind him of their demands.
“The chief adviser is playing highly controversial and partisan roles and we can hardly believe he will take any steps to create a congenial atmosphere for a free and fair election or make neutral the field and top levels of civil and police administration,” said another 14-party leader.
“And for this we are thinking of going for one-point movement to force the chief adviser to resign,” he added.
The coalition held a series of meetings with different political parties including the Jatiya Oikyo Front (JOF) led by Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party, and several Islamic political parties during the last couple of days to bring them under a platform for movement for a free and fair election.
These political parties have expressed solidarity with the 14-party combine and staged simultaneous demonstrations in the streets demanding immediate reconstitution of the EC, correction of voter lists, neutralisation of the administration along with several other demands for a free and fair election.
Before taking the final decision to wage a combined movement to oust the CA, the 14-party and the ‘like-minded’ ones will continue their pressure on the CA for a few more days to see what steps he takes to make the administration neutral, sources said.
Talking to The Daily Star, several leaders of different political parties said they cannot accept the chief adviser’s blind partisan activities in favour of the BNP-Jamaat alliance.
“If the chief adviser continues partisan activities we will have no alternative but to go for a one-point movement,” said Workers’ Party President Rashed Khan Menon, a key leader in the 14-party combine.
Keeping in mind the matter of waging a one-point movement to force the CA to resign, the 14-party began negotiating with other political parties and finalised a common programme to stage sit-in demonstrations in front of the Bangabhaban and EC Secretariat on November 27 and 28 as a starter.
During the last couple of days, the 14-party also held meetings with several foreign diplomats and will continue briefing them of the CA’s ‘controversial’ activities.
The 14-party and the JOF sat at Abdul Jalil’s Gulshan residence on Thursday night to devise a strategy to force the caretaker government head out of the office.
Emerging from the meeting, LDP Secretary General Abdul Mannan told journalists that they will wage a one-point movement to force resignation of the chief adviser.
“That’s why we’ll stage a sit-in in front of the Bangabhaban on November 27,” he added.
The same night, Zaker Party, an Islamic political party, also held meeting with the 14-party to express solidarity with the movements.
The combine will also talk to some other political parties to bring them in the streets with them.
After a three-hour long meeting of the 14-party leaders at Jalil’s residence yesterday with AL Presidium Member Abdur Razzak in the chair, Jalil demanded immediate resignation of the CA who he termed ‘the root of all misdeeds’.
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