 | 14-party warns CA of mass upsurge
18 November, 2006
The Awami League (AL) led 14-party coalition will resume non-stop blockade across the country tomorrow if President/Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed does not meet by today its 11-point demand.
"If the conspiracy to rig the election continues, our blockade programme will culminate in a one-point mass movement for the ouster of Iajuddin," 14-party Coordinator Abdul Jalil told a press briefing at the AL's Dhanmondi office yesterday.
Earlier on November 15, AL President Sheikh Hasina postponed the blockade, considering public sufferings and the combine's confidence in the talks with advisers. She gave the chief adviser four more days to prove what she said was his neutrality.
Meanwhile, the 14-party line-up from a rally at city's Muktangan yesterday threatened to lay siege to the Bangabhaban in the event of the president not conceding the demands that the former leader of the opposition submitted on October 30.
Briefing the newsmen, Jalil, also general secretary of AL, said only 24 hours are left for Iajuddin to meet the demands that include among others reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC). If he fails to carry out the proposals "aimed at creating an atmosphere conducive to free and fair conduct of the election" by this time, the countrymen will have to go on with the blockade programme for the third time.
The plot thickens due to the dilly-dallying tactics of the president, the AL leader alleged.
He observed, "He [Iajuddin] is still trying to keep intact the BNP-Jamaat's blueprint for election engineering. By taking measures to announce the election schedule without even initiating steps to reconstitute the Election Commission, he is in fact trying to hamper the electoral and democratic process."
The president is dragging his feet despite knowing well that the blockade will start again on Monday, Jalil said adding that public patience is wearing thin with his indifference to the 11-point demand.
He said if the AL and its allies are compelled to take up the agitation, the chief adviser, chief election commissioner (CEC), three other election commissioners, and the bureaucrats working for BNP-Jamaat will have to shoulder the responsibility.
Release link:http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/11/19/d6111901033.htm
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