Sajeda demands early JS poll to protect democracy

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After a meeting with her party chief, Awami League (AL) senior presidium member Begum Sajeda Chowdhury Saturday urged the caretaker government (CG) to call parliamentary elections 'immediately' to protect democracy, reports UNB.
"They (incumbent govt) have come to salvage the nation. To establish democracy on a permanent footing, elections must be held immediately," she told reporters after meeting with Sheikh Hasina at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum.
Sajeda made the demand just a day ahead of the Election Commission's much-awaited announcement of a roadmap towards holding the stalled elections.
In reply to a question she claimed the Mig-29 and Frigate purchase cases against Sheikh Hasina had already been settled. "It has no meaning to reinvestigate the cases," she said.
About political reforms-apparently an obligation under the wind of change blowing in the country under the interim caretaker regime installed through the January 11 changeover-Sajeda said the AL wants reform of both the party and the state apparatus.
She disapproved of the so-called minus formula in political-party reforms by saying "party reform would be carried out not by excluding Hasina".
Criticising the renaming of the newly commissioned navy frigate by deleting Bangabandhu's name, the AL leader said it sounds like 'akika' of a same baby three times.
Sajeda observed that the Bengali nation and Bangladesh "do not exist without Bangabandhu".