Awami League finds no need to form national committee
The Awami League does not find any plausible reason to go for a national committee that Bangladesh Nationalist Party has proposed to tackle the coronavirus situation.
AL joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim on Wednesday told New Age that the proposal of the BNP was a political stunt.
He said that most countries are now facing COVID-19, but none of them has formed such committee as there was no way of holding any meeting or gathering to ensure social distancing.
He advised the BNP to ask its leaders and activists to follow the instructions of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the Health Department to prevent the possible transmission of the virus.
On Tuesday, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged the government to form a national committee immediately to tackle the coronavirus situation.
Talking to reporters at his Uttara house in Dhaka, he said that the BNP, in this situation, criticised the government not to merely blame it, but to help them.
Besides, leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance following a meeting through video conferencing have asked the government to form an all-party unity to tackle the situation.
It also called on the prime minister in a statement on Tuesday evening to steps to hold a meeting of all democratic parties to save the people.
The alliance also expressed dissatisfactions over the failures of the government to take adequate steps to tackle the situation.
They called on the government for setting up coronavirus detection centres in every district as the disease had spread across the country.
Coordinator of the alliance Bazlur Rashid Firoj, Communist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Mohammad Shah Alam, Ganosamhati Andolan chief coordinator Zonayed Saki, SPB(Marxist) central leader Manas Nandi, Revolutionary Workers Party central leader Akbar Khan, Democratic Revolutionary Party central leader Shahidul Islam Sabuj, United Communist League general secretary Mosharraf Hossain Nannu and Samajtantrik Andolan convener Hamidul Haque signed the statement.
On the other hand, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD president ASM Abdur Rob in a statement called for forging unity ignoring differences among different organisations.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
