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Lift emergency by Dec 11

Demands 4-party

Staff Correspondent
The BNP-led four-party leaders yesterday reiterated their demand for withdrawing the Emergency Power Rules and scrapping or suspending section 9 1(e) of the Representation of People Order (RPO) for what they said was holding a free and fair election.
The four-party leaders once again declared that they would contest the national election once the government lifts the state of emergency before or on December 11 and scrap the section 91(e).
"We are an election-oriented alliance, we want to contest the polls. But the government will have to create the environment for holding a free and fair election,’ BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said at a discussion at the Institution of Engineers in the capital.
BNP organised the discussion commemorating the fall of autocratic ruler HM Ershad who stepped down on this day in 1990 in the face of a mass upsurge.
General Ershad, who grabbed power through a military coup on March 24, 1982, handed over power to a neutral
interim government ending his nine years of autocratic rule.
Delwar said a free and fair election couldn't be held amidst emergency.
Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid said the two 'dictator powers' -- HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party and Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League have joined hands to grab power.
Pointing at AL leaders Mojahid said, "Their aim is to grab state power, not the welfare of the people and the country: that is why Awami League has joined hand with dictator Ershad."
"We'll resist them through
the election," he said.
Bangladesh Jatiya Party Secretary General Shamim Al Mamun, Islami Oikya Jote Secretary General Abdul Latif Nezami, among others, addressed the meeting.
Meanwhile, BNP chairperson's adviser ASM Hannan Shah yesterday accused AL of violating electoral code of conduct as the party has given assurance to Ershad to make him president once the AL alliance wins the election, reports our Gazipur correspondent.
Hannan was addressing a view exchange meeting on upcoming election in Kapasia.