Bangladesh: SPB urges govt to stop unilateral elections

Dhaka, Dec 14 (The New Age): The Socialist Party of Bangladesh faction on Friday called on the government to refrain from holding ‘unilateral’ elections.
The SPB faction central leader Shubhranshu Chakrabarty at a rally in front of the National Press Club also said that the unilateral general elections would not end the current political crisis of the country.
He urged the government to take steps for holding a participatory election with the participation of all political parties.
Leaders of the party expressed satisfactions over execution of Jamaat leader Quader Molla for crimes against humanity committed during the war of independence in 1971.
They called on the government to execute the verdicts against other condemned convicts of crimes against humanity.
They also urged the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance to refrain from creating anarchy in the name of movements.    
Chaired by Shubhrangshu Chakrabarty, the rally was addressed, among others by its leaders Alamgir Hossain Dulal, Fakhruddin Kabir Atik and Kalya Dutta.
The rally was followed by a procession that paraded different city roads.