The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

BNP-led four-party alliance will continue its ongoing movement till its demands are fulfilled, said BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain.

He was addressing a rally held in protest of police attack on the alliance's August 27 human chain programme at the Institute of Engineers in the city yesterday.

He also announced fresh schedule of programme meetings and rallies across the country on September 9 to press home for five-point of demand.

The demands include release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, and Tarique Rahman, lifting of the state of emergency, holding of the parliamentary election ahead of upazila election, bringing down the price of essentials within reach, and scraping of Election Commission's Representation of People Ordinance (RPO).

He said now people were in panic and could not exercise their freedom of movement due to police harassment and false and politically motivated cases. The Caretaker Government was lingering the panic situation by extending the state of emergency violating the Constitution, he added.

"Prolonging the state of emergency year after year is illegal, anti-constitutional and anti-democratic, he added.

Referring to the cases filed against Khaleda, he urged the Government to refrain from pursuing false and politically motivated cases.

He condemned the police attack on the alliance's peaceful human chain programme across the country on August 27 formed to drum up support for the release of Khaleda Zia and sending her eldest son Tarique Rahman abroad for better medical treatment.

"BNP wants peaceful handing of power through fair and free election," Delwar noted.

The government and its collaborators will bear the responsibility, if they pull the country to an instable situation,

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed said the Government could not complete the voter list yet, which was their failure.

He cautioned the government that if the upzila polls were held before the parliamentary election, the alliance would go for a tough programme.

He warned the Caretaker Government that the people would never tolerate dillydally tactics on the release of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman.

Mojaheed urged the Government to withdraw cases filed against the alliance Khulna unit leaders on charge of violation of the emergency rules during observing its August 27 human chain programme in Khulna city adding, "If you (the government) will not withdraw the case, its will be considered as provocative."

"It seems that no movement will be held during the Ramzan, but spontaneous movement can never be repressed," he added.

BJP Chairman Andalib Rahman Partha, Secretary General Shamim Al Mamun, Khelafat Majlish Ameer Moulana Ishaq, Islami Oikyajote Secretary General Abdul Latif Nezami, Jamaat Assistant Secretaries General Abdul Kader Molla and ATM Azharul Islam and BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, among others, addressed the rally.