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AL on alert

14-party combine forms human chain, vows to resist chaos

Staff Correspondent
The Awami League-led 14-party combine will resist any bid by the BNP to create chaos in the capital today in the name of holding a grand rally.
Leaders of the ruling combine gave the warning from a human chain in the capital yesterday. It
formed the 12-km human chain from Gabtali to Jatrabari to press home its demand to speed up the trial of war criminals and foil any plot to hinder it.
The 14-party programme ahead of the opposition rally was apparently a showdown by it. Key leaders of the combine, associate bodies of the AL and like-minded professional and other organisations joined the human chain at different points.
The combine men will remain on the roads from early morning today in all the constituencies in the capital along with the law enforcers to prevent any chaos. The AL high command has already directed all the party lawmakers of the capital to keep their supporters on standby in all lanes and by-lanes of their respective constituencies today, party insiders said.
They have also been directed to make sure that no opposition men can join their Nayapaltan rally in processions from the respective constituencies, AL sources said.
“The government will resist by all means any bid to create chaos in the capital tomorrow [today] for the sake of peace and security of lives and properties,” AL General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said addressing the human chain at Gulistan.
“We have information that many BNP men have come to Dhaka with firearms, and the cadres and militants of Jamaat and different militant outfits have also been directed to join BNP's rally. We have also information that these cadres will try to create chaos,” he said.
The LGRD minister said the opposition leaders were threatening the government for the last several days centring their rally. “It seems that they [BNP leaders] have declared a war against the pro-liberation forces to protect the war criminals.
But we want to say the government will maintain law and order at any cost for the sake of continuation of democracy and trial of war criminals.”
Urging the BNP to give up any destructive plans for today and join parliament session to discuss the process of holding the next national elections in a free and fair manner, the ruling party spokesperson said the government is ready for discussion if the opposition places specific proposals to this end.
“There is no alternative to dialogue in a democratic system, and we believe any problem can be solved through discussion," said Ashraf.
Senior AL leader Tofail Ahmed asked the party workers to build resistance in every house in the capital like they did in 1971 against the Pakistani occupation forces.
AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said their party and the government would not obstruct BNP's rally if it is held peacefully. In case of any bid to create chaos, he asked his party men to take position in all wards, lanes and by-lanes in the capital and build united resistance against the opposition's troublemakers.
Dhaka City AL General Secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya asked the party men to give the opposition activists a befitting lesson if they create anarchy.
The others who addressed the human chain at different points include 14-party leaders Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Amir Hossain Amu, Suranjit Sengupta, Matia Chowdhury, Abdul Jalil, Obaidul Quader, Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Haque Inu, Shahara Khatun, Mohammad Nasim, AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury and Mrinal Kanti Das.