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One year Past January 5 Polls

AL to celebrate 'victory day for democracy'

BNP terms it 'democracy killing day'

Staff Correspondent
The ruling Awami League (AL) plans to launch a massive publicity campaign across the country on January 5 next year to celebrate the day, terming it "victory day for democracy".
The AL would project its success stories through billboards, banners and posters at all districts and upazilas across the country to mark the day. It would also highlight violence, vandalism, arson, bomb attacks and killings allegedly by the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami alliance ahead of the election.
On the other side, the BNP-led opposition alliance is going to observe the day terming it "democracy killing day" through forming
human chains across the country.
Ahead of the January 5 polls held amidst boycott and protests by major political parties including the BNP-led alliance, the AL grabbed most of the billboards in the city and elsewhere in the country to highlight various achievements of the government and appeal to the people to re-elect the party.
Owners apprehend their private billboards might have been taken up again due to the government's poster campaigns. An official of a major advertising agency said they had learned that their space would be taken up by the ruling party's campaigns. "We have decided to go for a countrywide publicity campaign programme marking the victory day for democracy on January 5. We will project the government's success stories of last six years through posters, banners, billboards, processions and rallies," AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif told The Daily Star.
AL central leader and lawmaker Abdur Rahman said apart from highlighting the government's one-year success, they would also publicise BNP-Jamaat's "violence and killings" on and ahead of January 5.
AL JOINT MEETING
At a joint meeting with its different associated and city bodies, the AL yesterday decided that the party would celebrate January 5 at 300 electoral constituencies through processions and rallies.
Simultaneous processions and rallies would be held in all the constituencies in the capital at 3:30pm, decided the meeting chaired by AL presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury.
The meeting thanked AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her bold leadership to hold the January 5 elections amidst international pressures and threats and boycott by the major political parties. It also expressed deep gratitude to those who had voted the AL to power amidst intimidation and threats by the BNP-Jamaatmen.
The meeting also chalked out elabo-rate programmes for Martyred Intellectuals Day tomorrow, Victory Day on December 16 and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Homecoming Day on January 10 next year.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, Hanif said, "We will observe the day in a
befitting manner as the elections helped continue the democratic and constitutional process in the country."
He also described January 5 as the "constitution protection day".
"The democratic and constitutional process would have been hampered and the country would have fallen in a crisis and might have headed towards a civil war if the elections had not taken place," he observed.
He said the country did not fall in any crisis as the election was held in the country under the leadership of the prime minister and there was continuation of democracy and development.
On BNP's programmes the same day, he said they were not thinking about other parties' programmes. “We want to concentrate on our own programmes, not on of others," he added.