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Update voter list with photos

Asks Hasina, leaves for India

Staff Correspondent
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday opposed the move to prepare a fresh electoral roll ahead of the- next general election but demanded inclusion of voters' pictures afterupdatingtheexistinglisL
"The BNP-Jamaat-led alliance
has been conspiring to rig the next election sensing their defeat And the preparation for a fresh voter list with tlie involvement of coalition loyalists is part of their conspiracy," Hasina told newsmen at the Zia International Airport before flying off to India for a five-day visit.
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She claimed most of the leaders and workers of her party could not reside in their own homes for the last four Sears due to atrocities by alliance-acked criminals and police.
"And the plan of the government is to leave these pro-Awami League people out of the fresh voter fist," I lasma, also the Awami League (AL) president, feared.
"I have information that cadres of the BNP and Jamaal have already prepared a draft voter list, dropping names of the pro-Awami League people and drafting in many rake voters," she claimed.
An updated list with pictures of voters will help stop fake voting, identifying the deceased, she observed.
The opposition leader, however, avoided directly answering whether the AL would boycott the next polls but expressed her concern about the prospect of holding fair polls.
"We will not step Into any trap laid out by the present government," she said. "The Awami League will take pan in election after the proposed reforms are introduced. We will compel the government to introduce those reforms," she said curtly.
"There will be no election without reforms in the caretaker govern-ment system and Election Commission as the BNP-Jamaat alliance has already started politicising the two institutions." shesaid.
Hasina also said, "The Awami League came to power every time with the people's verdict. We believe in people's power and their choice.....1 am confident that the Awami league will come to power again with the vote of people, not through other means."
Hasina said her party along with other opposition parties would launch a vigorous movement, farcing the government to realise the opposition demand for the reforms.
Asked about a possibility of forming a 'national government’, the AL president said she was not aware of such matter. But, she said.
"People are desperate to free themselves from the misrule of the present government and they may support any alternative forreuef."
Hasina also faced questions about a recent statement by her a’s Dhaka City unit president, immad Hanif, who suggested the AL high command to abandon secularism from the party constitution. "The Awami League constitution also supports liberty of all religions."
On the government's 'no' to the Tltesday Group's plan for holding a high-level conference in Dhaka on issue# related tp ideal clcction-prac-tlccs, -Hasinn said: ’It might have exposed the flaws and ill motives of thegovernment."
"The Tuesday group wanted to hold a conference on fair polls in Bangladesh and the government , shut them away, citing interference 1 in internal matters of Bangladesh." shesaid.
"If it was an Interference in local matters, then what was it when a number of diplomats were stationed in the Election Commission secretariat on the day of 2001 election?" asked the former prime minister.
About her India trip, the former prime minister said, she will visit Azmeer Sharif. "There may be cour-3 calls with political leaders in
li during the visit.'' she said.
Hasina is expected to return on October 2.