The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Awami League would participate the national election under the leadership of party president Sheikh Hasina. "We will participate the national election under party chief Sheikh Hasina's leadership after freeing her from jail," AL acting president Zillur Rahman said while talking to reporters at his Gulshan residence on Sunday.

He termed the cases that were filed against Sheikh Hasina as false and fabricated and demanded their withdrawal and immediate release of detained party chief.

Recalling the incidents of October 28 of last year, Zillur demanded the caretaker government to take action against Jamaat-Shibir and their patrons who were responsible for the incident. The AL leader said AL led 14-party combine had organized a blockade on that day marking the end of misrule of the 4-party alliance. He claimed that Jamaat-Shibir had launched virulent attacks on the activists of 14-party alliance and rained bullets on the demonstrators killing a cadre of Workers Party at Paltan. He alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance under a blueprint of election engineering had appointed President Dr Iajuddin Ahmed as Chief Adviser of the caretaker government, which was opposed by the people. Earlier on October 28 last year, at least 12 people were killed and about 2,000 wounded as activists of outgoing BNP-led 4-party coalition government and Awami League-led 14-party opposition combine clashed in an escalation of violence across the country.