Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday said verdicts on some war criminals will be executed during the government's tenure.
"Restoration of caretaker government system is not BNP's main agenda. Rather, the party wants to save war criminals.... The trial of some war criminals has already been completed and some of the verdicts will be executed during the present government's tenure," he mentioned.
The AL leader was speaking at an extended meeting of the Dhaka city unit AL at the party's Bangabandhu Avenue central office in the capital.
The killers of 1971 and 1975 want to create an unstable situation in the county, complained Hanif.
Regarding BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's statement that the government was "staging a drama" in the name of dialogue, the AL leader said, "How are we staging a drama? There is no drama in our offer. Rather, BNP has staged a drama by giving an ultimatum."
"Our invitation to the opposition leader is still valid. You [BNP] may inform us about the time when you want to talk with us," added Hanif.
He, however, insisted that the next national polls will be held under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
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Chaired by city AL acting president MA Aziz, the meeting was organised to make the November 3 (Jail Killing Day) AL rally at Suhrawardy Udyan successful.
Speaking at the meeting, AL leaders asked its city leaders to take initiatives to gather huge number of people at the November 3 rally. They also asked party men to remain alert about the BNP-Jamaat's violent activities in the name of hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
and blockade in future.
AL leaders Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Qamrul Islam and Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya spoke at the meeting, among others.