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Country to stop on polls schedule

Fakhrul threatens at 18-party rally

Staff Correspondent
The BNP-led 18-party alliance yesterday threatened to paralyse the country from the moment the Election Commission announces the polls schedule without a non-party caretaker government in place.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir issued the threat on behalf of the alliance from a protest rally in the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan.
On the other hand, Election Commissioner M Shah Newaz yesterday said the EC might declare the polls schedule by Monday, and that the 10th parliamentary election would be held in the first week of January.
Addressing the Suhrawardy Udyan rally, organised to protest the formation of polls-time cabinet, Fakhrul warned no "one-sided election" would be allowed to take place.
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He said the opposition would tomorrow stage protest rallies in every thana, upazila and municipality areas of the country to press home its demand for holding the election under a non-party caretaker government.
The BNP spokesperson also said though Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia had urged the president to take steps to resolve the ongoing political crisis, he did nothing until now.
He alleged that the EC was working to ensure the Awami League's victory in the next election.
Fakhrul also termed the polls-time cabinet "illegal".
BNP Dhaka city unit convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Jamaat leaders Izzat Ullah and Abdullah Mohammad Taher, and Secretary General of Liberal Democratic Party Redwan Ahmed also spoke at the rally.
Meanwhile, in its reaction to the opposition's warning, the ruling Awami League said Fakhrul had issued the threat at a time when
the premier urged him to hold talks with his AL counterpart.
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury told The Daily Star, "If the opposition tries to create any chaos in the name of agitation, law will take its own course."
She said the door for discussion was still open and that the next election would be held in participation of all parties.
JAM AAT THREAT
At the Suhrawardy Udyan rally, Dhaka city Jamaat's Assistant Secretary Shafiqul Islam Masud threatened that if anything untoward happens over Quader Molla verdict, the 56 thousand square miles (entire Bangladesh) would be set on fire.
Referring to the recent arson and vandalism at Chittagong's Sitakunda, Jamaat leader Abdullah Mohammad Taher said, "Sitakunda is just an example."
The whole country will turn into Sitakunda if a one-sided election is held, he added.