AL-led alliance to hold rallies in divisional cities in Sept

The Awami League-led alliance will hold rallies in eight divisional cities in September as part of mass contact ahead of the next general election and to resist the conspiracies to foil the election.

The decision was taken on Saturday at a meeting of the alliance at Dhanmandi office of the Awami League president Sheikh Hasina.

Emerging from the meeting, secretary general of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party Sheikh Shahidul Islam told New Age, that the meeting took resolution to remain united to resist the conspiracies to foil the next general polls.

‘BNP and newly formed political combine Juktafront are hatching conspiracies to foil the election, as they think they will be benefited if the extra constitutional force came in power,’ Shahidul said.

‘We shall hold the divisional rallies protesting the conspiracies to foil the election,’he added.

Workers Party of Bangladesh politburo member Quamrul Ahsan told that some leaders of the alliance partners were of the opinion that the issue of seat sharing should be resolved as the national election is scheduled to be held in December.

In reply of the demand Mohammad Nasim, the presidium member of Awami League and also spokesman of the alliance, told them that the issue of seat sharing would be resolved in proper time before taking part in the election jointly.

Chaired by Sheikh Shahidul Islam, the meeting was attended, among others by Awami League organising secretaries Ahmad Hossain and Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Samyabadi Dal general secretary Dilip Barua, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction general secretary Shirin Akhter, Bangladesh Jatiya Samjtantrik Dal general secretary Nazmul Haque Prodhan and others.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net