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Grand alliance, polls to top today's AL meeting

Staff Correspondent
The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) that sits today will take up some crucial issues including resumption of AL-led grand electoral alliance with Jatiya Party and Bikalpodhara Bangladesh.
Overall political situation in the country, socio-economic conditions, upazila and parliamentary' elections will be among the other issues to figure prominently at the meeting.
Acting AL president Zillur Rahman will chair the meeting to be held at party chief Sheikh Hasina's political office at Dhanmondi. It will also work out programmes for national mourning day on August 15.
Meanwhile, senior Awami League (AL) leaders yesterday asked the caretaker government and Election Commission (EC) not to push the country towards
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uncertainty, instability, discord and movements by holding upazila parishad polls ahead of national elections.
They also called for starting the process of holding parliamentary polls without further delay, and said no other elections before that would be acceptable to the people.
The AL leaders made the call at a discussion marking 7th founding anniversary of Bangabandhu Textile Engineers Association at the Diploma Engineers Institute in the capital.
They reiterated the party demand for lifting the state of emergency before parliamentary polls.
Zillur Rahman was the chief guest at the function addressed by senior AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Abdur Razzak and Tofail Ahmed, among others. Association president Safiqur Rahman was in the chair.
Zillur said the country is passing through a crucial time, and urged all democratic forces to work together to restore democracy.
He pledged that the Textile Engineering College would be made a full-fledged university if AI, is voted to power in the coming polls.
Amu suggested holding upazila and parliamentary elections on the same day.
Razzak welcomed the High Court verdict declaring illegal the cancellation of national mourning day and public holiday on August 15 by the BNP-Jamaat coalition government. He demanded that the judgment be implemented by observing the coming mounting day at state level.
Tofail urged party workers to remain united on the party stand that there could be no upazua election before parliamentary’ polls, and no election under the state of emergency or without Sheikh Hasina