Tough movement after Eid if Hasina not freed: Zillur
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Awami League (AL) Acting President Zillur Rahman Monday threatened to wage a tough movement, if AL President Sheikh Hasina, now in the US for treatment, was not released permanently before Eid-ul-Fitr, reports UNB.
Zillur Rahman also accused the government of indulging in a deep-rooted conspiracy to defer the stalled Jatiyo Sangsad (JS) election, slated for the third week of December as per the government and Election Commission-declared roadmap.
"The government must release our leader Sheikh Hasina before the Eid, or else, we'll have no option but to go for a tough movement to free her," he said.
He was talking to reporters when a delegation of Phulbaria Municipality, led by its mayor Golam Kibria, came to meet him at his residence.
Zillur also questioned the government's motive behind their attempts to bring Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to the negotiation table, saying that the government was "doing excesses" in this regard.
Later, Zillur Rahman at a discussion meeting, commemorating the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, accused the government of designing to defer the long-awaited national election.
Tungipara Association in Dhaka arranged the meeting at the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) auditorium with Sheikh Kabir Hossain in the chair.
Awami League presidium members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Abdur Razzak and Suranjit Sengupta, acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, former president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, among others, addressed the meeting.
"The conspiracy against the parliamentary elections is very clear. In the name of upazila election, the government is trying to create an anarchic situation in the country," he said.
Zillur Rahman also accused the government of indulging in a deep-rooted conspiracy to defer the stalled Jatiyo Sangsad (JS) election, slated for the third week of December as per the government and Election Commission-declared roadmap.
"The government must release our leader Sheikh Hasina before the Eid, or else, we'll have no option but to go for a tough movement to free her," he said.
He was talking to reporters when a delegation of Phulbaria Municipality, led by its mayor Golam Kibria, came to meet him at his residence.
Zillur also questioned the government's motive behind their attempts to bring Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to the negotiation table, saying that the government was "doing excesses" in this regard.
Later, Zillur Rahman at a discussion meeting, commemorating the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, accused the government of designing to defer the long-awaited national election.
Tungipara Association in Dhaka arranged the meeting at the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) auditorium with Sheikh Kabir Hossain in the chair.
Awami League presidium members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Abdur Razzak and Suranjit Sengupta, acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, former president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, among others, addressed the meeting.
"The conspiracy against the parliamentary elections is very clear. In the name of upazila election, the government is trying to create an anarchic situation in the country," he said.