AL, allies, their likes agree to revive grand alliance

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The Awami League-led 14-party alliance, Jatiya Party, Liberal Democratic Party, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh and several Islamic parties Wednesday promised to revive their grand alliance to defeat the BNP-Jamaat coalition in the upcoming elections, reports UNB.
Top leaders of the parties, who gathered at an iftar party arranged by the former ruling Awami League at a community centre in Dhanmondi area, said there is no way but to get more united to face the "evil forces" that have ruined the country during the last five years. "This is the unity of forces for good against the evil forces," Jatiya Party Chairman and ex-president Hussain Mohammad Ershad told reporters at the iftar party.
BDB President Badruddoza Chowdhury, another former president, and his son Mahi B Chowdhury, Secretary General Maj (retd) Abdul Mannan, LDP leader Shaikh Razzak Ali, Jatiya Party (Manju) Secretary General Sheikh Shahid, Jatiya Party (Ershad)'s acting Chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud, Gano Forum presidium member Pankaj Bhattacharya, Bangladesh Islami Oikya Jote Chairman Misbaur Rahman, Islamic Front of Bangladesh (IFB) Chairman Syed Bahadur Shah and Vice-Chairman Khandaker Golam Maola, among others, attended the function.