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Jobless youths flex muscles near Secretariat

By Staff Correspondent
Several thousand citizens most of them said to be unemployed held a rally on Monday in front of the National Press Club demanding recruitment in place of the striking government employees.
The rally under the banner of the Dhaka Social and ^Morale Development organisation also demanded cancellation of the newly announced pay scale and introduction of unemployment allowance with that money.
Presided over by Advocate Syed Matlul Islam Mantu the rally was addressed by Ali Ahmed, Mosarraf Hossain, Abdul Wahab Zamil, Strajul Islam, DUCSU GS Khairul Kabir Kohkan, AGS Nazimuddin Alam. RUCSU VP Rezvl Ahmed and student leaders Fazlul Huq Milon and Kamruzzaman Balan.
They said that the economic condition of the country did not permit the providing of any pay-scale as the autocratic ruler and his cronies had emptied the country's coffers and hoarded money in foreign banks. But the democratically elected government announced it for the low-paid employees on human grounds. The donor countries arc also against this pay scale.
The speakers criticised employee leaders, for creating disturbances inside the Secretariat for the past few weeks in the name of movement.
They said that those people
who had demanded the Prime Ministers resignation should remember that the Prime Minister and her government were elected by 12 crore peo pie of the country.
BSS adds : Speakers at the rally called upon the government employees abstaining from work to return to their duties immediately in response to the government ultimatum.
They said," the people of the country will no more tolerate any kind of conspiracy against the elected democratic government in the -name of movement for pay commission."
Khairul Kabir Khokan said a certain quarter had been conspiring to destabilise the government, which came to power with people's mandate, by engaging Ihc employees in the movement for pay commission.
The government has limitations, how can it provide the employees with huge amount of money? he asked.
The DUCSU GS said a number of employees had been chanting slogans in favour of a particular female leader and passing indecent comments against the Prime Minister
"If the employees do not return to their normal duties, Ihc people will build resistance against them", he cautioned.
DUCSU leader Nazimuddin Alam called upon the government to make fresh appointments against those employees who would fail to attend their duties within the stipulated time as announced by the government.
He said a handful of employee leaders had been forcing the employees to abstain from work, "everybody knows who arc behind the movement". he said.
RUCSU VP Rizvi Ahmed said the people of the country were ready lo face any undemocratic forces who want to destabilise the new democratic government.
He said, "We will continue our endeavours to give democracy an institutional shape."
Alt Ahmed, speaking on behalf of the unemployed youths, demanded cancellation of the Pay Commission report and appointment of unemployed youths.
Labour leader Mosharraf Hossain urged the employees to go back to their respective offices considering the present economic condition of the country which was ravaged by the autocratic regime.
"If you do not understand the present situation, the people will resist you", he said.
Advocate Syed Matlul Islam, in his presidential address, said the people of the country would continue to support the democratic government led by Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, installed through a free and fair election.
The rally was followed by a procession which paraded the main streets of the city.