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AL sits with allies on strategy

Ershad to launch agitation on 4 points

Staff Correspondent
The main opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies sit today to work out strategies to intensify their anti-govemment movement while the Jatiya Party (Ershad) in a major development yesterday decided to
launch an agitation on a four-point demand.
T\vo days after the AL and left-leaning parties announced a nine-point movement to unseat the coalition government, the IP's highest policy-making forum yesterday declared countrywide agitation programmes in December and January, which include road march and rally in districts to realise the demands.
The demands include formation of an independent election commission, independence of the judiciary, curbing corruption and violence, and immediate holding of upazila elections.
The JR the second largest opposition party in parliament, will however not go for any oust-govemment agitation this time. It will also not demand resignation of ihe government because of several pending cases against party Chairman HM Ershad, sources said.
Party policymakers said they will now go ahead with the four-point agitation and organise the party at grassroots level. Then they will demand resignation of the government
Senior leaders of the AL, 11-Party Alliance and Jatiya Samj tantrik Dal (JSD-Inu) meanwhile sit this noon at the JSD office to discuss their strategy to intensify the anti-government movement that starts with aTeknaf to Tentulia human chain on December 11.
"We will also discuss ways to give our unity a concrete shape as unity bids by the parties in the past had no positive outcome," JSD President Hasanul Haq Jnu told The Daily Star yesterday.
The /\L-lcd opposition parties announced on Thursday their 9-point demand including one for snap elections.
The components of the left 11-Party Alliance that are with the AL in the movement include Communist Party of Bangladesh. Workers Party of Bangladesh, Gano Forum, Samyabadi Dal, Ganotantri Party, Gano Azadi League, Communist Kendra and Ganotantrik Majdur Party.
Bangladesher Smajtantrik Dal (BSD-Khaleouzzaman), another component of the 11-Party combine, yesterday announced separate agitation programmes against the
government to realise its demands.
Apart from the simultaneous movement with the AL and others, the CPB will announce its own agitation programmes at a press conference in the ci ty today.
JP PROGRAMMES
The JP will go for road march to Syihet from the capital on January 3-4, to southern districts on January 18 to 20 and to Chittagong and Khulna later.
A meeting of the JP presidium with its chief HM Ershad in the chair yesterday also resolved the party will make preparations for contesting the next general elections without joining any alliance.
The party also decided to hold meetings in districts during December to mobilise public opinion for its road march programmes in January.
The JP meeting also decided to hold central council of the party on February 14 after completing the councils of the remaining 33 district units by next month.
BSD PROGRAMMES
The BSD yesterday announced fortnightly programmes from the beginning of next month as part of its anti-government agitation.
Party leaders urged its allies in the 11-party to shun simultaneous anti-government movement with the AL and not to use the name of the combine during the movement.
"There is no basic difference between BNP and AL as their politics is devoid of principles. The 11-Party Alliance should not go with AL as the alliance was formed to introduce an alternative political platform other than BNP and AL," Klialequzzamnn, convenor of the BSD, said at a press conference.
The BSD will not attend any meeting of the 11-party as long as It takes part in the simultaneous movement with the AL, he said.
BSD agitation programmes include rallies, processions and mass contact in districts from December 2 to 10 and a mass rally at Muktangon in the capital on December 15.