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Govt takes guard

Hasan Jahid Tusher and Rashidul Hasan
The government has taken a hard line to contain the violence created by Jamaat-e-Islami and has asked the law enforcement agencies to tackle the troublemakers at any cost, government sources say.
The government apprehends that Jamaat will spread further violence, especially after today's Juma prayers when the party would take to the streets across the country.
Already, the government has deployed border guards in Dhaka and elsewhere in
the country and asked all law enforcement agencies to be on high alert. Securities of all important establishments have been beefed up through -out the country after yesterday's nationwide mayhem.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has spoken to some of her cabinet colleagues and asked all the lawmakers to go to their constituencies to tackle any untoward situation, sources in the ruling Awami League told The Daily Star.
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Jute and Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddique and state ministers for home Shamsul Haque Tuku, for LGRD Jahangir Kabir Nanak and for housing Abdul Mannan are among those Hasina talked to about the situation.
“It's the last desperate attempt by them [Jamaat-Shibir] for their survival and the government will control any situation in line with the law," Matia Chowdhury told TheDailyStar.
Top officials of all law enforcement agencies held a series of meetings last night to work out today's action plan, sources said, adding that law enforcers will patrol all districts, upazilas and important areas of the country today and tackle troublemakers with "an ironhand".
A senior police official said security measures in diplomatic areas would be reordered and beefed up from today.
Jamaat is set to organise special prayers after Juma prayers today for the "salvation of the departed souls of those killed in the violence yesterday and in the last few days in the hands of law enforcers" as well as for Sayedee's release. Seven other religion-based parties will also organise special prayers.
Jamaat and the seven parties, which earlier in the evening said they would not organise any programmes with Jamaat today, will also bring out processions across the country.
"We won't be able to control the emotions of our hundreds of workers who are devotees of Moulana Delawar Hossain Sayedee. So the government will have to shoulder all the responsibility if any untoward incident happens,” Amiruzzaman, ameer of Chittagong Metropolitan
I north], toldThe Daily Star last night.
Contacted, Shaikh Md Wahid-uz-Zaman, principal secretary to the prime minister, told this paper: “The government will do everything to ensure safety and security of public lives and properties.”
Mahbubul Alam Hanif, special assistant to the PM, said, “Jamaat-Shibir's violence will be contained with an iron hand. I urge the people and the law enforcers to resist them strictly.”
Director of Rab's legal and media wing Commander Habibur Rahman said they had already strengthened vigilance and security measurers outside the capital.
“Highest security measurers will be taken for tomorrow (today] through the deployment of all the Rab forces across the country to thwart any destructive activities,” he said.
Law enforcers apart, AL and its associated bodies have been asked to be active on the streets to assist the law enforcers in thwarting violence by Jamaat-Shibir men. Also, AL leaders and activists will attend today's Juma prayers in huge numbers in an apparent bid to thwart Jamaat's violence, said Jubo League Chairman Omar Faroque Chowdhury.