Tuesday • January 09, 2007

Poll resistance committees to be formed at every centre: Abdul Jalil

Leaders and workers of the Awami League-led mega-combine have been instructed to form polling centre-wise election resistance committee to foil the attempt of one-sided January 22 farcical poll.

"The directives in this regard have been communicated to the grassroots level leaders through district level leaders of the combine," said Abdul Jalil, Awami League general secretary and the coordinator of the 14-party combine, emerging from a meeting of the mega-combine held at his Gulshan residence in the capital last night.

Presided over by Awami League Presidium member Amir Hossain Amu, the meeting was also attended by Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Rashed Khan Menon, Major (Retd) Abdul Mannan, Hasanul Huq Inu, Bimal Biswas, Shirin Akhter, ABM Ruhul Amin Howladar, Dilip Barua, Syed Zafar Sajjad, Haji Abdus Samad, Md Nurul Islam, Syed Sirajul Kabir, Abdul Mannan and Dr Deepu Moni.

Abdul Jalil said the meeting reviewed the latest political situation prevailing in the country and strongly condemned the police action on their peaceful demonstrations in the capital as elsewhere across the country during their second day's blockade program yesterday.

"The barbaric attitude of the law enforcers and their cruel attacks on the pro-blockade pickets, particularly on the female workers, exposed their partisan role," he said and called upon the Inspector General of Police and Dhaka's Police Commissioner to behave neutrally with the mega-combine activists refraining from taking a stand as party activists.

Otherwise, the 14-party coordinator threatened that they would be held responsible and tried in future in case of repetition of such actions.

He urged the people from all walks of life in general and leaders and activists of the mega-combine in particular to make the third day's blockade program today including a siege of Bangabhaban a success.

The Awami League general secretary informed the newsmen that his party (Awami League) President and the premier leader of the mega-combine Sheikh Hasina will announce fresh course of action program from a public rally at the city's Paltan Maidan on Wednesday marking homecoming day of the founding Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He said Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, Liberal Democratic Party president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, Zaker Party chairman Peerzada Ameer Faisal Mojaddedi and central leaders of the 14-party combine would address the grand public rally on the day.

Abdul Jalil also reiterated his call to the teachers' community and the polling officers and presiding officers not to get involved in any process of the farcical polls of January 22. Otherwise, he warned that those who would be involved in the process of the polls of mockery of January 22 would be branded as 'razakars' (collaborators of Pakistan army in 1971).

Bitterly criticising the caretaker government and the Election Commission, the Awami League leader said a flawless, corrected and updated voter list could not be prepared as yet although only 13 days are left for the election which bore the testimony to the facts about the futility of the national polls slated for January 22.

Abdul Jalil urged all to make the ongoing movement for restoration of the people's franchise in a credible and acceptable election a success by resisting collectively Prof Iajuddin Ahmed's evil design to hold a farcical January 22 elections like that of February 15 voter-less polls in 1996 to bring back Khaleda Zia-led BNP-Jamaat alliance to power.

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