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CRIMES IN N-DISTS

Leftists take a swipe at Jamaat

UNB, Dhaka
Workers' Party President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday said it is not BNP but 'fundamentalist' Jamaat-e-Islami is in proxy rule and at the helm of power.
"Jamaat is controlling the home ministry and this fundamentalist force is implementing its hidden agenda," he told a press conference at his party office expressing grave concern over the rise of an armed fundamentalist group in northern districts.
Menon, speaking for the leftleaning 11-party alliance, demanded actions against all those, including a deputy minister and police administration, involved in creating a reign of terror in Natore, Naogaon and Rajshahi.
Coordinator of the 11-party alliance and CPB leader Morshed Ali in a written statement said a group of armed miscreants, dubbed as Mujahideen, are attacking houses of their opponents every day and created a frightening situation.
Ali said those terrorists under the banner of Islami Jalsha are assaulting those who they consider as sinners.
The armed terrorists led by Azizur Rahman (Bangla Bhai), returned from Afghanistan and known as a Jamaat cadre, already killed four people and fatally injured
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many others in their so-called crusade to eliminate Sarbahara, Purba Banglar Communist Party and other underground armed groups, he said.
Ali alleged that the armed fundamentalist groups are being patronised by deputy minister from Natore, other influential BNP leaders of Rajshahi and local police administration.
Members of the armed fundamentalist outfit also assaulted the officer-in-charge of Bagmara Police Station, but police did not take any action against them, he said.
Those terrorists are compelling the local youths to grow beards, wear ankle-length clothes, and women to wear veils. They are also trying to stop playing music in hotels and restaurants, he added.
"We want to clearly say that in the name of uprooting Sarbahara and other underground groups they have no right to take law in their own hands," Ali said.
To a query, Menon said Awami League (AL) and 11-party alliance separately staged demonstrations in front of the Rajshahi deputy commissioner's office yesterday.
He alleged that fundamentalist groups that turned into Frankensteins are now openly carrying out their activities.
About AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil's April 30 deadline, he said the date is not important and April 30 is still far away, "this government should go right now."
Commenting on playing cricket in front of the Hawa Bhaban by BNP leader Tarique Rahman on Thursday apparently showing a damn to the AL's siege programme, Menon termed it "audacity", while BSD leader Khalequzzaman said "it's a dishonest politics and a sign of low-taste cultural values."
"Politics is not a cricket match," Menon said.
Also present at the press conference were Manjurul Ahsan Khan, Saiful Islam, Masudur Rahman Babu, Fazle Rashid Feroz, Azizul Islam Khan, Abdus Samad and Subhas Shekhar.