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No room for terrorism

PM asks BNP to do politics in democratic manner

Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee
The ruling Awami League will back 'a single candidate' in each upazila for the upazila parishad elections likely to be held in two phases in February and March.
The party has also decided not to allow AL rebel candidates, who won in the 10th parliamentary elections, to join the treasury bench in parliament.
The decisions were taken at a meeting of the AL's Central Working Committee at the Gono Bhaban yesterday with party president Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, in the chair.
In her speech at the meeting, Hasina once again asked the BNP-Jamaat alliance to shun "terrorist" activities and to show "democratic behaviour."
" BNP-Jamaat must stop militant and terrorist activities as people of the country will not tolerate their destructive acts," she said.
The premier also said her government would do everything required to stop militant and terrorist activities and protect the country, sources said.
Hasina blamed the BNP-Jamaat for the attacks on Hindus in different places of the country and asked her party men to stand beside the victims.
"BNP is maintaining relations with Jamaat. It means BNP is with the terrorists. Committing terrorist acts is its main job," she said.
"None can protect the militants... regardless of the powers standing beside them," the premier warned.
According to the meeting sources, the premier wanted early upazila elections, saying if city corporation elections were held in due time, the results could have been different.
The ruling party candidates were defeated in five of the six city corporation elections held during the previous tenure of Sheikh Hasina's government.
At the meeting, she asked the party leaders to work to strengthen the organisation ahead of the upazila parishad polls as, she said, the polls will be more competitive than the last national elections.
"January 5 elections were held in free, fair and credible manner, but there was no competition in the polls," she was quoted by a party leader as saying.
She also asked the cabinet members and MPs of the ruling party to maintain good ties with the grassroots of the party.
Referring to the rebel AL candidates, who won in the parliamentary polls, the AL chief said they would continue to be considered as independent MPs in parliament.
Fourteen out of 15 independent candidates who won in the last national polls were AL rebel candidates.
Speaking on why some party high ups were not included in the cabinet, Hasina said some of those, who held important organisational posts, were not kept in the cabinet so that they could properly focus on strengthening the party.
"This time government and the party will function separately," she was quoted by sources as saying.
In his speech, AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said conspiracies were being hatched by different quarters against the government. He also urged the party leaders to remain alert to resist any "evil design" as such.
At the meeting, AL's central committee member Alauddin Nasim was removed from the highest decision-making body of the party as he did not join any meeting of the committee ever since he became a member, sources said.
The meeting also adopted a condolence motion on the death of former chief justice and chief adviser of the county's first caretaker government Muhammad Habibur Rahman.