AL urges govt to lift ban on indoor politics totally

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Awami League (AL) Tuesday urged the caretaker government to lift ban on indoor politics and give permission to open political party offices across the country, reports UNB.
Senior Awami League presidium member Sayeda Sajeda Chowdhury made the plea at the end of Tuesday's intra-party inquiry at AL's Dhanmondi office.
Heading a one-member probe committee, she attended the party office from 10:00am to 12:00noon taking depositions from six witnesses to the incident of heckling reformist AL leaders.
"Government should not keep the people in a suffocating situation and should lift ban on indoor politics across the country so that politicians can stand beside the flood victims," she told reporters.
Responding to a query about debates in AL as published in a newspaper, Sajeda said their party is united and there are no chances of split in the party. "Anyone can leave Awami League but the party will not go with him."
She dismissed the published news about wrangles in AL as "false" and "baseless".
Sajeda further said the AL-led 14-party coalition still remained and it would decide its next course of programmes in its meeting.
"Difference in Awami League means difference in nation, history, culture and spirit of the Liberation War. So it's our duty to save Awami League from any bisection," she observed.
AL central leader Abdul Latif Siddique, who saved the reformist leaders from the wrath of party workers, submitted his statement to Sajeda in writing.
Acting AL General Secretary Mukul Bose, Organising Secretary Abdul Mannan, and AL leaders AKM Jahangir Hossain and Prof Abu Sayeed were roughed up by the group of party activists before and after the party's Central Working Committee meeting on September 12.