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14-party leaders bin civil society call for dialogue

Staff Correspondent
A number of ministers and Awami League-led ruling alliance leaders yesterday lambasted civil society members for their call for a national dialogue to end the ongoing political stalemate.
The civil society members under the banner of Jatiya Oikya Prokria at a roundtable discussion styled "National Dialogue in National Crisis" on Saturday called for a national dialogue to put an end to the political standoff.
The leaders and ministers of the 14-party alliance were addressing programmes and rallies held simultaneously across the country in protest against political violence.
"Those who are talking about dialogues instead of taking a stand against violence are the actors of 1/11 changeover. The civil society is like a cancerous parasite that must be uprooted from the society," Food Minister Kamrul Islam told a rally.
"Members of the civil society are not able to help the wounded people but can instigate (the violence]," the
minister said at the rally organised by Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote in front of Jatiya Press Club.
He said those who were killing people hurling firebombs were terrorists, not human being. "No dialogue is possible with those terrorists," he observed.
Leaders of the ruling alliance yesterday ruled out a dialogue with the opposition and stressed the need for strengthening administrative measures to resist the ongoing movement.
Rejecting any possibility of holding a dialogue, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu at a press conference at his Secretariat office said there would be no dialogue between "humans and demons".
He criticised those who proposed for a dialogue for their "failure" to come up with a constructive suggestion. "There are groups of people who intellectualise the arson attacks by saying that it is a direct outcome of BNP being denied political space," he added.
The ruling alliance yesterday formed human chains across the country to
protest against violence occurring during the BNP-led 20-party alliance's blockade that has so far left 68 people dead and scores injured.
Leaders and activists of the AL and its alliance partners formed the human chains in Dhaka and all district headquarters for one hour starting at 3:00pm. In the capital, the 14-party leaders and activists formed the human chain from Gabtoli bus stand to Jatrabari.
A huge number of leaders and activists took part in the programme urging the BNP-led alliance to stop their violent activities in the name of politics.
Taking part in the human chain at Jatiya Press Club, AL Publicity Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahamud urged the civil society members not to encourage “terrorists" by talking about dialogues.
AL presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim at Russell Square hinted at formulating a new law to combat militants and terrorism, while his presidium colleague Suranjit Sengupta said a special force would be launched to resist anarchists.