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Staff reporter

Awami League Acting President Zillur Rahman yesterday the urged the Caretaker Government to hold the national election in mid October or first week of November.

He was addressing the party leaders and activists at a discussion meeting organised by Jubo Mahila League at 32, Dhanmondi in front of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum to mark the fourth anniversary of August 21 grenade attack on the AL rally in 22004.

Calling on the Government to hold the national election ahead of any other election Zullur said, the key responsibility of the caretaker government is to hold the national election for handing over power to a democratic government. But the Government is doing other less-important jobs keeping the main job aside, he noted.

AL presidium Member Amir Hossain Amu reiterated his demand to hold the ninth parliamentary election in October.The government could announce the date of the upazila polls, but that must have to take place after the general elections, he stressed.

Amu said, "We want Jatiya Sangsad elections first in October and not in December".

AL Presidium Member Suranjit Sen Gupta asked the government to take punitive action against the CID officials who tried to divert the motive of the grenade attack under the influence of the BNP-Jamaat government.

He said that the corrupt CID officials tried to save the rogues by staging the "Joj Mia and partha" dramas. It is clear that the immediate past BNP-Jamaat Government was directly involved in the brutal attack, he maintained.

AL Presidium Member Begum Matia Chowdhury, Advocate Rahmat Ali, member of AL advisory committte and a number of leaders also spoke at the meeting, which was chaired by Nazma Akthar, president of Jubo Mahila League.