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Staff Reporter

Leaders of the BNP and Awami League have continued their relief operation in the Sidr affected areas separately.

Both the anti-reformist and reformist groups of the BNP yesterday dispatched two separate relief teams from Dhaka to the affected areas of Bagerhat and Barguna while the Awami League (AL) collected relief materials from leaders and activists of its Dhaka City Committee.

Chairman of the AL Relief Committee and party Presidium member Abdur Razzak called for proper distribution of relief materials among the distress people in cyclone affected areas.

“The Government has got lot of relief materials and donations from within

and outside the country. Those should be properly distributed among the distress people,” Razzak said while addressing leaders and activists of the city committee, who handed over relief materials to the party’s relief committee at its Bangabandhu Avenue central office.

Razzak demanded of the Government to sanction fresh loans to the farmers and businessmen of the cyclone affected areas and waive all interest on their loans.

He also demanded immediate steps to rehabilitate the distress people in coastal belt and distribute agriculture inputs to the farmers.

Razzak said AL would continue relief operation “Our leader Sheikh Hasina is not present among us. It is our responsibility to continue the relief activities.”

Party leaders Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Faizuddin Mia, Habibur Rahman Seraj and Mukul Chowdhury were among those present at the programme.