The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Acting President of Awami League Zillur Rahman, yesterday blamed the Caretaker Government for engaging in a conspiracy to foil the December parliamentary election as per the roadmap.

He also informed that the party had started taking preparation for participating in the national election and any polls ahead of the JS polls would be resisted by all means.

Zillur made this comment while addressing a delegation of Mohila Awami League at his Gulshan residence.

He also accused the Government of trying to arrange a parliamentary poll according to a blueprint.

Zillur warned that if the Government tried to hold upazila polls ahead of the parliamentary election, it might create anarchic situation and pull the country towards uncertainty.

Asked about the existence of the AL-led grand alliance, he said the issue would be finalised after the return of Sheikh Hasina from the US.

Asked about the comments of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad that he was keeping regular contact with Sheikh Hasina over phone, he said he did not know anything about it. Ershad himself could say better about this.

When asked to comment on the government's initiative to bring the two former prime ministers AL Chief Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, Zillur Rahman said, "Now Hasina is under provisional release. During this provisional period she will not sit with anyone, even with the chief executive of the country."

He added that only after Hasina's unconditional release from jail, she herself would decide whether she would sit with anybody for talks or not.

Asked when Hasina would return home, he informed the journalists that she was likely to return home on October 7 or a day after.

Zillur further alleged the caretaker government is now out to rehabilitate "the corrupt and miscreants" of the last BNP-Jamaat regime who played controversial role during the liberation war.

"To conclude the insufferable misrule of BNP-Jamaat alliance government, the present caretaker government brought about the political changeover of 1/11. But they failed to fulfill the expectation of the country's people. Rather they were now working to bring them back.

Zillur also alleged that the government had usurped people's fundamental rights by imposing state of emergency and he termed it a plot to eradicate politics from the country.

"The caretaker rulers should understand one thing-the state cannot be ruled by force," he said.