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Hasina rejects talks with Khaleda

Accuses the government of role in grenade attacks

Staff Correspondent
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically rejected any dialogue with Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, holding the government responsible for the grenade attack on her rally that killed 19peopleand injured over 200 others.
Talking to a delegation of journalists at her Sudha Sadan residence, Hasina, also the leader of the opposition, said the government failed to tackle every incident and the onus ofSaturday's rally bombing wenttoit.
"The blood marks are still raw. I cannot sit with them in this situation. What will I say when the families of the dead will demand explanation," shesaid.
She said amid national and international pressure, some quarters were trying to save Khaleda spreading the notion of national consensus through adialogue.
"Our demand is very clear. We demand immediate resignation of Khaleda Zia and her government," she stressed.
The former prime minister accused Khaleda, her eldest son Tarique Rahman, Parliamentary Affairs Advisor Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar of plotting to exterminate the entire leadership ofher party.
She alleged Tarique in association with Salauddin and Babar controlled the Bangladesh underworld.
If the government had no links
with the bombing, the assailants could not escape from the scene in presence of a large number of law-enforcers.
"Law-enforcers attacked injured people and fired tear gas in the wake of the explosions to create an escape route fortheattackers," shealleged.
"How can the attackers enter the rally venue dodging a large number of policemen when the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) is conducting an operation to nab criminals?" she asked.
On the bomb explosions during the AL rule, Hasina said leaders and activists of her party were also the prime targets of the attacks and brushed aside the suggestion that her party unfettered the explosions,
"Is it rational the Awami League
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leaders will blast bombs to kill their own men?" she asked.
On recovery of a grenade from Dhaka Central Jail, Hasina said some criminals from the jail might have carried out the rally attacks with support from the government or some people tried to free some 'notorious criminals' exploding the devices.
Habibur Rahman Milon, Haroon Habib, Hasan Shahriar, Akhter Ahmed Khan, Swapan Kumar Saha, Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan and Omar Faruk went to the Sudha Bhaban, among others, to express sympathy for her.