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Hasina's no to talks with govt

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Hasina's no to talks with govt
Refusing dialogue with the ruling alliance, Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday demanded immediate resignation of the government and mid-term parliamentary elections.
"Awami League wants fresh elections immediately and we are ready for that," she said at a press conference at AL's Dhanmondi office.
"Their [ruling alliance's] days are
numbered and their barbaric attacks on our supporters during the recent hartals are but their last desperate bid to cling to power," the leader of the opposition said, adding the AL was the only force that could free people from what she said was misrule.
Women leaders and activists of the AL and its front organisations, tortured by police during the last three daylong hartals, accompanied Hasina at the conference. Senior
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party leaders were also present.
Rejecting any move by any quarter to arrange a dialogue between the government and the main opposition party on the political crisis, the AL chief said, "People won't accept such a dialogue as Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is accused of killings and oppressing women."
On whether there is any possibility of AL lawmakers resigning en-masse, Hasina said, "An appropriate decision will be taken at an suitable time …
if necessary, we will resign with others … there are many with us."
On people's sufferings from frequent general strikes, the AL president said, "Give me an alternative … We have no option but to enforce hartal as we have been pushed to the extremes."
Hasina said her party discussed with some like-minded political parties a possible alliance and a unified oust-government movement and the outcomes were positive.
"All the parties agreed that ouster of the present government was a must for the greater interest of the country and its people," she said.
The opposition leader gave a broad hint at forming a coalition government after elections like the 'government of consensus' she constituted after winning in the 1996 general elections.
Hasina once again accused Khaleda of prompting police and alliance cadres to torture opposition activists, especially women, during the hartal.
"Police beat our women leaders and activists with batons and rifles at will and kicked them. The way police meted out brutality surpassed all records of barbarity," Hasina alleged.
"I don't understand how the prime minister, being a woman, could order police to kick women and nudge their abdomen and other sensitive organs with sticks and gun barrels. The ruling alliance with fundamentalist Jamaat has appeared an enemy of women," she said.
She said her party would inform international women organisations about it.
The AL chief also criticised the recent Independent Anti-Corruption Commission Bill claiming the move would not bring any good to the nation.