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‘Hartal the moment govt signs CHT treaty’

By Staff Correspondent
A Joint meeting of the BNP and six other opposition parties yesterday strongly felt the need for keeping "close watch" on the government move to sign a secret treaty" on the Chittagong Hill Tracts and related developments.
"The moment the government signs the so-called treaty, the already announced programme (a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country) will be implemented and fresh programmes will also be announced", said a resolution adopted at the meeting.
Held at the Minto Road official residence of BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Begum Khaleda Zia, the meeting also alleged that the government was desperate to jeopardise the country's independence and sovereignty by signing the treaty.
The meeting condemned the killings during the public meeting of the "combined Opposition in Chittagong on Tuesday and said it is part of a government" design to hail the opposition rallies". It also protested filing of cases against the 7-party leaders after the Chittagong incidents. It demanded withdrawal of the cases and arrests and trial of the killers.
Earlier in the morning, BNP's National Standing Committee at a meeting reaffirmed the party's position not th return to the Jatiya Sangsad unless the government accepts Its three-point demand which include withdrawal of cases ;ggainst party lawmakers, meeting sources said. '
The two other demands are withdrawal of the ban oh street rally in the city and. cases against the partymen in connection with BNP's recent street rallies
Held at the Minto Road official residence of Begum Zia. the meeting was chaired by BNP Vice-Chairman Piof AQM Badruddoza Choudhury.
Talking to newSmen later in the evening. BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan said his party de mands fresh selection of meeting venues in the city. The road in front of the Jatfya Press Club and the Manik Mia Avenue should be iri the fresh list, he said.
Replying .to a question on home ministry's scrutiny of the list of political cases' against the. BNP lawmakers, leaders and workers. Mannan Bhuiyan said political cases were fil&l against 22 to 24 party
MPs and addqd that names of some of the Opposition legislators were missing from the previous list of 19 MPs.
Commenting on the home ministry finding that a good number of cases against the BNP men were filed during BNP rule, he said both his party and the 'Awarni League filed cases against each other after the ?eneral elections on February 5. 1996. The AL, after coming to power, withdrew cases against fts leaders and workers while those against the BNP remained.
When his attention was drawn to press reports that the Treasury Bench may form the parliamentary standing committees on various ministries today, he remarked. "If they do it unilaterally, there are chances for the crisis to deepen
The standing committee meeting In a resolution strongly protested the government s "planned and heinous propaganda" against the Leader of the Opposition to achieve "vested political interests".