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Left aloof from AL alliance plan

REAZ AHMAD
Opposition Awami League's bid for a 'rapproachment' with left-leaning proliberation parties is still to make any headway as the leftists are persistently pursuing an 'independent line.'
In a resolution at Tuesday's meeting, the AL Central Working Committee called upon 'like-minded' political parties to unite against what it dubbed government-sponsored repression across the country.
After the meeting, acting AL President Abdus Samad Azad told newsmen that the party was communicating with other parties to evolve a common stand against 'political persecution' by the ruling four-party alliance.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, leaders of some left parties said there has been 'informal talks' with senior AL leaders on different socio-political issues.
However, they stressed that the left parties would continue to pursue an 'independent line' and emerge as a 'third political force' in the country other than the AL and BNP.
Before the October 1 general election which AL lost to BNP-led four -party alliance, the party did not approach any of the components of the 11-Party alliance for any sort of electoral understanding.
Despite frantic efforts by AL, the leftist parties did not involve themselves directly in AL's convention on 'Crime Against Humanity', held in the city in
February this year.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Mujahidul Islam Selim told The Daily Star yesterday, "Like others we're also fighting against government's repression on political opponents. But forming any political alliance with Awami League is not in our agenda."
He said, "We may agree or defer with both AL and BNP on many issues but that does not means we're in an alliance-making process," The left parties' efforts for forging a 'greater communist unity' would remain the topmost priority, he said.
A leader of Workers Party said there might have been some informal talks with other parties. This is part of a continuos process in national politics. "But there has been no discussion in this regard in any of our recent politburo meetings."
Neither the president nor the general secretary of Workers Party were available for comments on the issue of a united movement as both are now away from Dhaka.
Awami League leaders will brief party chief Sheikh Hasina on the outcome of informal talks with the left parties when she returns home, party sources said.
Hasina, now on a month-long private tour of the UK and the USA, is scheduled to return home on May 23, the sources said.