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| AL: BNP will not be allowed to enter Dhaka in January |
| 2014-12-25 |
| Activists of the BNP-led 20-party alliance will not be allowed to enter Dhaka city from January 1, with Awami League supporters staying on the streets to resist them, the ruling party has said. Addressing a rally in the capital yesterday, Awami League’s Dhaka city unit General Secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said the ruling party men would take position on the field from the start of January. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance led by Khaleda Zia would not be allowed to come in field from January,” he added. Maya, also the disaster management and relief minister, claimed that supporters of Awami League’s Dhaka city unit, Chhatra League, Jubo League, Swechchhasebak League and other associate bodies would keep watch over the city’s streets and take position at every road and neighbourhood to protest BNP’s January 5 agitation programmes. Terming January 5 the day for protecting democracy, he said: “If the national polls had not taken place on January 5 last year, the country’s democracy would have fallen into a deep crisis. For this reason we have announced of observing they day as Victory Day of Democracy.” Calling the BNP-Jamaat alliance “the enemies of democracy,” the minister blamed them for trying to create agitation in the country with their January 5 programmes. Maya urged party leaders and activists to stay alert and resist any BNP-Jamaat act of anarchy. |
| Posted by:Steve White |