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AL to take to streets on BNP rally day

Hasan Jahid Tusher
Ruling Awami League will take to the streets in the capital on March 12, the day the main opposition BNP is scheduled to hold a grand rally.
Quamrul Islam, state minister for law and also the joint general secretary of AL Dhaka unit, on Thursday, said AL would take hold of all the streets in Dhaka city and no programme of BNP would be successful that day.
In response to Quamrul's announcement, BNP yesterday alleged that the ruling party is trying to go for confrontation through counter-political programmes to bring back the state of emergency and remain in power.
Terming the situation alarming, former adviser to a caretaker government Akbar Ali Khan yesterday told The Daily Star that if the two major political parties fail to reach a consensus, the political atmosphere of the country will grossly deteriorate.
On January 9, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at a rally in Chittagong declared the March 12 Dhaka rally to mount pressure on the government for the reinstatement of caretaker government system.
On the other hand, in November last year, AL had announced a programme till May this year to press home their demand for immediate trial of war criminals and “resist the opposition from creating chaos in the country”.
“We will observe our programmes peacefully and hence are urging the opposition to refrain from the politics of violence,” said Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, general secretary of AL Dhaka city unit, yesterday. He said they would continue with the programmes until their demand is met.
Meanwhile, BNP Standing Committee Member MK Anwar yesterday said, “Foiling opposition's programmes is AL culture, as did its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani's Paltan rally in the 50's.”
He said the ruling party, "sensing no stable ground underneath, has gone insane and hence making such statements of taking hold of all Dhaka streets”. "They want to bring thestate of emergency through chaos and remain in power by all means,” he alleged.
The BNP leader said people will face the ruling party's move to hinder the March 12 rally as it has already turned into a programme of the people and the restoration of caretaker government system a national demand.
The ruling party will have to bear the responsibility of the consequences if they try to foil the grand rally, said MK Anwar, adding that Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina is responsible for the recent deaths of five BNP activists in clashes with police in Chandpur, Laxmipur and Rajshahi.
He warned that AL men responsible for the killings will be brought to book.
On Thursday, Hasina blamed the opposition leader for the deaths of the five.