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BNP has asked the government not to thwart its planned countrywide shutdown on Sunday and warned of tough consequences should police and pro-government activists try to obstruct the programme.
Party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir gave the warning at a news briefing at the Naya Paltan headquarters on Thursday.
The briefing followed a two-hour meeting from 10:30am of the main opposition party with its associate bodies over the daylong lockdown.
Fakhrul criticised the government for the price hike of fertiliser.
The BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday called the daylong countrywide general strike to protest the government move to discard the caretaker government provision for the next general elections in line with a court order.
It is the fifth general strike called by BNP since the current Awami League-led alliance came to power on Jan 6, 2009.
The opposition leader alleged that the ruling party leaders were threatening to foil the hartal.
"The home minister, law minister and Awami League joint general secretary threatened us over Sunday's hartal, but we want to say that the consequence will not be good if any obstruction is there to our peaceful hartal," he added.
All the BNP wants is to peacefully enforce the hartal to register its protest against the government move to scrap the caretaker government provision, Fakhrul said.
The main opposition party announced the programme a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that there was no way to retain the provision after the Supreme Court order.
"The caretaker government is a resolved issue and it was never disputed," said the acting secretary general of BNP, which has already declared to boycott elections if not held under the interim government.
"The government wants to hide its failure in every sector and to cancel the widely accepted caretaker system to win the next elections under a partisan government," he claimed.
"Although the Supreme Court annulled the 13th amendment to the constitution that had introduced the caretaker government system, it said the next two national elections may be held under caretaker governments [if parliament wants]," Fakhrul pointed out.
"This Supreme Court verdict is a 'split verdict. (And so), the people and parliament are not bound to follow the order," he added.
FERTILISER PRICE HIKE
The opposition leader also expressed his concern over 'more than 50 percent hike' in fertiliser prices.
The government has not been able to do anything for the people of any profession—be they farmers or workers, claimed Fakhrul, also president of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal, BNP's associate peasant body.
"They [government] were committed to providing the farmers with fertilisers free of cost, but urea is now selling for Tk 900 [per sack] which was Tk 300 during the tenure of the [BNP-led] four-party alliance government," said the former state minister for agriculture.
He called upon the government to reduce fertiliser prices.
JOINT MEETING
Fakhrul earlier held a two-hour meeting with the leaders of its associate organisations at the party headquarters over the upcoming lockdown.
BNP vice-president Abdullah AL Noman, joint secretaries general Amanullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal, Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal president Humayun Islam Khan and Dhaka City BNP member secretary Abdus Salam, among others, attended the meeting.
Source : bdnews24.com, June 02, 2011
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Party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir gave the warning at a news briefing at the Naya Paltan headquarters on Thursday.
The briefing followed a two-hour meeting from 10:30am of the main opposition party with its associate bodies over the daylong lockdown.
Fakhrul criticised the government for the price hike of fertiliser.
The BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday called the daylong countrywide general strike to protest the government move to discard the caretaker government provision for the next general elections in line with a court order.
It is the fifth general strike called by BNP since the current Awami League-led alliance came to power on Jan 6, 2009.
The opposition leader alleged that the ruling party leaders were threatening to foil the hartal.
"The home minister, law minister and Awami League joint general secretary threatened us over Sunday's hartal, but we want to say that the consequence will not be good if any obstruction is there to our peaceful hartal," he added.
All the BNP wants is to peacefully enforce the hartal to register its protest against the government move to scrap the caretaker government provision, Fakhrul said.
The main opposition party announced the programme a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that there was no way to retain the provision after the Supreme Court order.
"The caretaker government is a resolved issue and it was never disputed," said the acting secretary general of BNP, which has already declared to boycott elections if not held under the interim government.
"The government wants to hide its failure in every sector and to cancel the widely accepted caretaker system to win the next elections under a partisan government," he claimed.
"Although the Supreme Court annulled the 13th amendment to the constitution that had introduced the caretaker government system, it said the next two national elections may be held under caretaker governments [if parliament wants]," Fakhrul pointed out.
"This Supreme Court verdict is a 'split verdict. (And so), the people and parliament are not bound to follow the order," he added.
FERTILISER PRICE HIKE
The opposition leader also expressed his concern over 'more than 50 percent hike' in fertiliser prices.
The government has not been able to do anything for the people of any profession—be they farmers or workers, claimed Fakhrul, also president of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal, BNP's associate peasant body.
"They [government] were committed to providing the farmers with fertilisers free of cost, but urea is now selling for Tk 900 [per sack] which was Tk 300 during the tenure of the [BNP-led] four-party alliance government," said the former state minister for agriculture.
He called upon the government to reduce fertiliser prices.
JOINT MEETING
Fakhrul earlier held a two-hour meeting with the leaders of its associate organisations at the party headquarters over the upcoming lockdown.
BNP vice-president Abdullah AL Noman, joint secretaries general Amanullah Aman and Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal, Jatiyatabadi Tanti Dal president Humayun Islam Khan and Dhaka City BNP member secretary Abdus Salam, among others, attended the meeting.
Source : bdnews24.com, June 02, 2011
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