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Download PDF Acting Awami League (AL) President Zillur Rahman today reiterated his demand for the release of party chief Sheikh Hasina so that she can stand beside the cyclone-hit people.
“Had our party chief Sheikh Hasina been freed, she would have extended her all-out cooperation to the cyclone victims as she did in the past,” he told reporters at his Gulshan residence this afternoon.
Expressing sympathy for the families of those died in the devastating cyclone, Zillur said the victims should immediately be provided with shelter and food, while the injured be given proper medical treatment.
The acting AL chief called upon the party leaders and workers to stand beside the cyclone victims.
He said a medical team of Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad has already left for Barisal to provide medical services to the survivors of the cyclone.
Besides, an AL relief team, headed by former party lawmaker KM Jahangir, would visit the affected coastal areas, he added.
Zillur urged the government to take immediate steps for rehabilitation of the cyclone victims and said the affected farmers and fishermen shout be provided with cash and other helps, including fertiliser, pesticides and power pumps free of cost.
He also urged the government to provide fresh farm loans to the cyclone-hit people, writing off their existing loans.
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