The ruling Awami League has instructed its leaders and activists to
remain alert to the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s
threat to immobilise the country immediately after announcement of
schedule for the elections to the tenth parliament.
The leaders and activist of the AL and its associate bodies have also
been asked to take position at their respective locality from today and
strictly follow the instruction if the BNP-led alliance tries to create
anarchy in a bid paralyse the country.
Acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, addressing a
rally on Friday, said that the country would be paralysed the moment the
Election Commission would announce the schedule without a resolution to
the issue of election-time non-party government.
Awami League organising secretary Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapon told New
Age on Monday, ‘We have been asked to take proper steps to keep the
moving if the BNP and Jamaat try to immobilise it.’
He said that their tasks were to protect the lives and property of the
people but the party men would not take the law in their own hands. ‘We
will just continue to cooperate with law enforcers to foil the
BNP-Jamaat’s plan to create anarchy,’ Swapon said.
Dhaka city AL acting general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya
said that they brought out jubilant processions from each of the city
wards shortly after the election schedule was announced on Monday
evening.
‘We will be on guard in Dhaka from today so that the BNP-Jamaat cannot get any chance to commit any violence,’ he said.
AL presidium member Mohammad Nasim said that the ruling party was not
worried about the fresh threat of opposition BNP as it had issued many
false threats.
This time they [BNP] would succeed neither to immobilise the country nor to resist the elections, he said.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, addressing the nomination aspirants
at her official residence Ganabhaban on Sunday, asked the nomination
seekers to remain alert to BNP and Jamaat and get united so that they
(BNP and Jamaat) could not resist polls. (source)