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People aren’t afraid of threats: Hasina
Awaml League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the government to stop the "farcical, one-party elections" to avoid further confrontation and called upon the people to build up allout resistance against the polls, reports UNB.
"Any government elected through farcical voting will be Illegal, and thus should not be allowed to be formed." ahe said urging all concerned not to go the polling centres.
Hasina was addressing a meeting of professionals. Intellectuals and cultural activists in front of the National Press Club in the afternoon.
She called upon all the professional groups, government officials, police. BDR, members of the armed forces, and radio a^d TV workers. including newscasters and cameramen." not to assist the government in stealing votes by holding the mock election."
• Hasina said: "People will impose a curfew on the polling day and will not come out of doors to reject this one-party elections . . . Government will not be allowed
to play with the voting rights of the people."
She also called upon the people to observe an allout hartal on February 14-15 to block the elections process, rejected by all opposition political parties.
The Awaml League chief directed her party workers, three days ahead of the elections to intensify the current ,movement to 'remove the autocratic government, force it to cancel the February 15 voting and give fresh elections under a caretaker government."
She said: "It is not possible to suppress the people's movement by repression and intimidation. People aren't afraid of threats, they will give a befitting reply after the elections."
She alleged that the BNP government had destroyed all the democratic institutions through corruption and politicisation, ana unleashed terrorism across the country to cling to power.
The professional groups, intellectuals and cultural activists. who attended the
Hasina
FrqreP^ 1 meeting, expressed their solidarity with the ongoing opposition movement and said they would boycott and resist the elections.
Teachers Association pre sident Principal Mohammad Qamruzzaman. Mohila Samity president Dr Neleems Ibrahim. College-University Teachers' Association president Dr M Akhtaruzzaman. Muktijoddha Command Council chairman Principal Abdul Ahad Chowdhury. Hindu-Bouddha-Chrlstlan Okkya Parishad chairman Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta. Group Theatre Federation chairman Nasiruddln Yusuf Bacchu, Nirmul Samannay Committee member secretary Prof Abdul Mannan Chowdhury. BFUJ president Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury. Alnjibi Samannay Parishad convenor advocate Shamsul Huq Chowdhury. SKOP leader Abu) Basher. Engineer Golanf Mostafa, dramatist Ataur Rahman. Sammilita Sangskritik Jote general secretary Golam Quddus and agriculturist Monirul Islam, among others, addressed the meeting.