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Polls only after dissolving JS

Reiterates Khaleda

Staff Correspondent
A general election cannot be held without dissolving the incumbent parliament, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said yesterday.
She also reiter-
ated her demand that the caretaker government system be restored for holding parliamentary polls.
Khaleda, also leader of the opposition in parliament, made the remarks in the context of the latest constitutional amendment providing for general election within 90 days before expiry of parliament's tenure.
She was speaking at a discussion at Mahanagar Natya Mancha in the capital. Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, a front body of the main opposition BNP,
SEE PAGE 19 COL 7 FROM PAGE 1 organised the programme on the occasion of its 32nd founding anniversary.
The BNP chief said, "No election will be allowed to be held under the present government, and they [govt] will be forced to reinstate the caretaker system.
“We will keep pressing for a non-party neutral government no matter how many times they [govt] speak of holding the election under a politicalgovernment."
Khaleda termed the present government "weak” and said this was why, the ruling party wanted to hold the election while still in power. “The government has established a one-party rule in the name of democracy.”
Explaining the reason for backtracking from declaring tougher anti-government programmes, the former prime minister said they wanted to assume power through a peaceful and credible election instead of creating chaos, what the Awami League had done in2006.
She censured the government for its absolute failure in running the country and stated that people were now being killed in their houses and disappeared when out.
Khaleda alleged that the ruling party activists had hurled bombs inside the Secretariat and set fire to a bus on the day the opposition observed hartal as part of a conspiracy to throw the oppo -sition leaders in jail and foil the movement.
“But such conspiracy will not bring any good. BNP is now a strong and popular political party. We will counter the government in a befitting manner," she said urging her party leaders and activists to be prepared for the upcoming anti-governmentmovement.
Khaleda further said the government was smearing the Zia family with corruption allegations, while in fact the Awami League chief (Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina] and her family and cabinet members and the ruling party leaders were corrupt.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, LDP president Oli Ahmad, among others, spoke at the discussion. Habib-un-Nabi Sohel, president of the organisation, chaired the programme.