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Talks, polls won't be meaningful

Says AL

Staff Correspondent
Awami league (AL) yesterday said the ongoing dialogue and upcoming election could not be held in a meaningful way as the caretaker government has complicated the situation through "arrest, torture
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and repression" on its leaders across the country.
At a secretary-level meeting, AL asked the government to stop the crackdown and demanded immediate release of the arrestees.
The meeting was held at party chief Sheikh Hasina's political office in Dhanmondi with AL Acting General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam in the chair.
“Without any reason, a good number of our party leaders and workers have been arrested. These arrests have been made to complicate the prevailing situation and in this situation, it is not possible to hold dialogue and election meaningfully," Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters after the meeting.
Alleging that the arrests were politically motivated, he said police started raiding houses of AL leaders across the country after the party's extended meeting had been held in the capital on May 26.
Ashraf said they would send a letter with its decision on dialogue to the chief adviser's office within acoupleofdays.
Replying to a query on whether the AL will form an alliance with the BNP following Khaleda Zia's cal) for an all-party unity, the AL leader vehemently rejected the idea and said that as a secular political party, AL would never go for any coalition with the "fundamental and radical" BNP and Jamaat.
“There will never be any unity with them as they are solely responsible for the current situation. Their widespread corruption, politicisation and misrule from 2001 to 2006 led to 1/11,” Ashraf said.
“When the Sector Commanders' Forum has been urging all political parties not to join hands with the anti-liberation war forces, the BNP is trying to revive its coalition with Jamaat." He added.
The meeting also decided to send forms and instructions to the party's district, upazila, thana and union level leaders by tomorrow for the mass signature collection to press home the party's six-point demand, including the release of Hasina.
The meeting also decided to make a synopsis on the organisational reports submitted by the grassroots level leaders from the party's 72 organisational districts at the extended meeting on May 26.
Asked about the Dhaka City committee's plan to form a human chain' around the special jail where Hasina has been detained, he said they would discuss the matter with city leaders within a couple of days and fix a date.