Sunday • June 11, 2006

Islami Oikya Jote leaders meet Sheikh Hasina; vow to continue movement with 14-party

Bangladesh Islami Oikya Jote (BIOJ), a breakaway faction of the four-party ruling alliance yesterday vowed to participate in all anti-government movements with the Awami League-led 14-party opposition combine to expedite the fall of this autocratic regime.

The BIOJ leaders said this when they led by Alhaj Misbahur Rahman Chowdhury met opposition leader Sheikh Hasina at Sudhasadan residence at Dhanmondi yesterday noon.

Describing the reasons behind their decision to quit the ruling coalition, the BIOJ leaders told Sheikh Hasina that the BNP-Jamaat government talks about Islam, but in fact they want to cling on to power making the people confused in the name of Islam. They said the government is patronising militancy in the country and has created an anarchic situation in its bid to return to power.

Awami League president Sheikh Hasina thanked the BIOJ leaders for taking a courageous decision of quitting the ruling alliance and called on them to join the ongoing anti-government movement in the larger interest of the nation and Islam.

Sheikh Hasina said Khaleda-Nizami government came to power promising to establish good governance and Islamic values, but so far they have done nothing. "In fact, they don't believe in Islam of Hazrat Mohammad (SM). Instead they follow Moududi. They have distorted Islam and destroyed the image of Bangladesh abroad earning it a bad name of most corrupt country for the fourth consecutive time," she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the government wants to cling on to power through election engineering as it has appointed party men to every department, including the Election Commission.

Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil MP, presidium member Kazi Jafarullah, environment affairs secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud, leaders Momtaj Hossain, SM Kamal Hossain, Prof Dr Abu Bakkar Siddique, BIOJ vice-chairman M Nurul Islam, Mukhlesur Rahman Talukder, acting general secretary Shaikhul Hadith, Maulana Muniruzzaman Rabbani, organising secretary Maulana Firoz Ahmed were present at the meeting.

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