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AL plans big for March 7

Wants to show party strength before BNP rally billed for 12th

Staff Correspondent
Ruling Awami League will hold the "biggest ever” mass rally in the capital on March 7, apparently to flaunt its political strength in terms of public support before BNP's March 12 grand rally.
Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the rally at 3:00pm at Shikha Chirantan in the historic Suhrawardy Udyan. Following the rally, the party will bring out a procession that will end near Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi.
"It will be the biggest ever mass rally in the history of Bangladesh," said AL acting general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday at a meeting at the party's central office at Bangabandhu Avenue with party presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique in the chair.
Leaders of the party and its all associated bodies of Dhaka city and Dhaka, Narayanganj, Narsingdi, Manikganj and Munshiganj districts, district council administrators, ministers, and lawmakers of greater Dhaka attended the meeting.
AL senior leaders at the meeting said Dhaka would turn into a human sea on the day that coincides with
the historic March 7 programmes. On the day back in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a powerful speech at Dhaka's Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan) declared the battle against the then repressive Pakistani forces.
The party is planning to gather at Suhrawardy Udyan a few lakh people wearing green and red t-shirts which according to party leaders will portray the symbol of the national flag and the Liberation War.
Senior leaders of AL and its different associated bodies, including Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Matia Chowdhury, Mahbubul Alam Hanif and Qamrul Islam, spoke at the meeting that discussed the preparations for the programme.
Tofail called upon party leaders and activists to remain alert throughout the month of March so the main opposition BNP cannot create any chaos in the
name of holding rally.
Agriculture Minister Matia said Dhaka city would be teeming with people on March 7.
Hanif, a special assistant to the prime minister, said BNP's March 12 grand rally is aimed at foiling the trial of war criminals and saving BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's two sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko from corruption charges.
If BNP tries to disrupt law and order on the day, law enforcers will take necessaryactions, he added.
State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam said no one would be allowed to take control of the city in March.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the AL-led 14-party alliance will be convened today at Hasina's political office in Dhanmondi to discuss the country's latest political situation. The meeting will start at 11:00am with 14-party coordinator Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury in the chair.