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Discord surfaces in opposition unity

Left parties wrangle over one-point movement

Staff Correspondent
Discord surfaced in the mainstream opposition unity with a major component of the camp divided over a mass movement plan to unseat the government, a day after the grouping joined ranks to launch a united agitation.
After a meeting with the 11-party left alliance, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and the National Awami Party (NAP) on Sunday night,' Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina declared the opposition cohesion for dislodging what she said was 'the fundamentalists-allied Khaleda Zia government' from power.
But Bangladesh SamajtantrikDal (BSD) in a statement yesterday said there was no relation of his party
with the one-point movement
'It's not a decision of the 11-party, but of a few parties that participated in the meeting," Khalequzzaman, convenor of the BSD, said.
Some leaders of the left alliance contradicted him, saying they joined Sunday's meeting as the representatives of the left coalition.
"We joined the meeting as leaders of the 11-party," Workers Party President Hashed Khan Menon told The Daily Star yesterday. Asked about the discord in the left alliance, Menonsaiditwasnothingnew.
The BSD in the statement said four components of the 11-party alliance did not participate in Sunday's meeting with Hasina, also the leader of the opposition.
Some leaders of the left alliance
ing fight against fundamentalism and imperialism on the agenda of the united movement as they do not believe the fall of the Khaleda administration will resolve all the major problems facing the nation.
The main opposition AL expressed surprise over the confusion. "Who fought the fundamentalists more than the Awami League? We are still fighting religious fundamentalists," AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil toldThe Daily Star yesterday.
AL President's Political Secretary Saber Hossain Chowdhury said there were a little wrangling in the left grouping, but it would not hinder the one-point united movement
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Frontline leaders of the AL at a meeting last night reviewed the political situation and decided to discuss the issue with the left parties to erase the confusion, sources said.
The CPB at a meeting yesterday said it did not believe in a movement with the only objective of forcing the government from power, leaving aside some pressing issues including fight against fundamentalists.
The CPB announced nationwide processions on September 4 to realise its demands and drum up support for the united movement.
Talking to The Daily Star CPB General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim said his party wanted to oust the government, but the crises facing the nation would not end at the fall of the four-party ruling coalition.
"We have to root out fundamentalist groups from the country."
The adjourned meeting of the left alliance, scheduled for 3:00pm yesterday, was postponed for an indefinite period because of the discord.
Confusion runs high among some left parties that want to take stock of the situation in party forums.
Coordinator of the alliance, Hazi Abdus Samad, said he postponed the adjourned meeting as the alliance components wanted to discuss the situation themselves before sitting together again.
He hoped the meeting would be held in a couple of days.
"The issue of the one-point movement will be discussed at the adjourned meeting," the coordinator said.
He said leaders of every component of the left alliance were not present at Sunday's meeting with Hasina.
But all other constituents of the grouping except for the BSD held meetings with the leader of the opposition in the wake of the August 21 grisly grenade attack on an AL rally on the Bangabandhu Avenue, he said.
Meanwhile, Bikalpa Dhara and Jatiya Oikay Mancha at a joint meeting yesterday said the government lost its moral right to rule because of its failure to deliver.