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Join anti-govt agitation

Khaleda tells newly formed business forum

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday sought support from businesses for the opposition's caretaker government movement.
"If the incumbent government wants to hold a one-sided election in the country, you [businessmen] should join hands with the general people and the opposition to resist the poll,” she told a views-exchange meeting with businessmen at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
She urged the business community to join the anti-government movement to restore the caretaker government system in the constitution.
The opposition leader asked the government to act responsibly and try to feel what she called the pulse of the masses.
She reiterated her call for forming Sangram Committees under every polling centre to resist any one-sided election.
Babosayee Parishad (Businessmen Council), a new platform of businessmen, organised the meeting.
Khaleda, who heads the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance, called upon people to get united to protect their voting rights.
She said if voted to power at the next general election, her party would introduce fair politics with a "new trend in running the government”.
"We'll establish national unity with opinions from all. We'll not do business; we will remove all barriers faced by businesses
and speed up the development of businesses and industries," she mentioned.
She excoriated the Awami League-led grand alliance government for its poor performance in different sectors. She accused the ruling AL men of "looting the state banks" in the name of taking loans.
Assuring businessmen of solving their problems, Khaleda said she had taken note of their problems and would try to solve them if returned to power.
Atiqul Islam, president of the BGMEA, thanked the opposition leader for her initiatives to develop the country's garments sector. He requested the BNP chief to make sure that the sector was not affected by the opposition's anti-government movement.
Former BGMEA chief Salam Murshedy said the garment industry had been facing an image crisis after the Rana Plaza disaster in Savar. He urged the former premier to help the industry overcome the image crisis.
Abdul Awal Mintoo, a former president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said if any one sided-election was held in the country, the business community would not participate in that election.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, its standing committee member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain and central leader Amir Khosru M Chowdhury spoke at the programme, among others.