Leaders of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance on Thursday warned that opposition BNP will have to face the worst consequences like militants if it does not sever its ties with Jamaat-e-Islami.
“Our door is always open for BNP if it leaves the company of Jamaat, but Khaleda Zia doesn’t leave Jamaat,” senior Awami League leader Suranjt Sengupta told a protest rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city in the afternoon.
The 14-party alliance’s Dhaka Mohanagar unit organised the rally protesting Pakistan resolution expressing concern over the execution of war criminal and Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah.
Speaking as the chief guest, coordinator of the 14-party alliance Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury said there is no compromise with the anti-liberation forces as they had killed innocent people and freedom fighters during the Liberation War in 1971.
Urging people to vow to protect the country’s independence, Sajeda Chowdhury, also the deputy leader of the House, said many people make many remarks but all must come forward to protect the independence ignoring their remarks.
“There might be another liberation war in the country to protect Bangladesh and its flag,” Sajeda said.
Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu said Awami League had carried out a movement against the BNP-Jamaat alliance government in the past, but did not kill any people. “Now BNP and Jamaat are killing people and making arson attacks across the country the way Pakistani occupation force had done during the Liberation War in 1971.”
Terming BNP’s movement against the independence of Bangladesh, he said, “We’re saying again and again that Khaleda is enforcing movement with support from ISI to save the war criminals. But people will foil her movement.”
Urging Khaldea Zia to stop killing people in the name of movement, Amu said if she did not stop killing, the law enforcing agencies will take stern action against the movement. “You may also face music in this regard.”
Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon vowed that the next parliamentary elections will be held as per polls schedule to uphold the country’s democracy.
“You (Khaleda) does not participate polls…it’s your and your party’s decision. But you can’t play game with people’s voting right.”
About the execution of war criminal, he said when Pakistan passes resolution in its parliament on the execution of Quader Mollah, she prefers to remain silent.
“You’re taking support from ISI (Pakistan intelligence agency)…but Bangladesh will never be Pakistan.”
Criticising the international community for not sending observers in the upcoming general election, Menon said, “Bangladesh needs not any such observer. The people of this land will observe the polls.”
Jaitya Samajtantrik Dal president Hasnul Haque Inu said the 14-party alliance wants to remove terrorism, bring war criminals under trial and stop killings and acts of sabotage on rail sector, but Khaleda Zia supports these acts.
He said nobody can stop the next parliamentary polls scheduled to be held on January 5 carrying out anarchy in the country.
Inu asked the opposition leader to make clear which side she will take – in favour the country independence or militancy.
Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (Marksbadi-Leninbadi) general secretary Dilip Barua, AL leader Mohammad Nasim and AL joint general secretaries Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Mahbubul Alam Hanif, among others, spoke at the rally.
Source: UNB Connect
