The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Awami League (AL) presidium member Amir Hossain Amu yesterday urged the Government and the Election Commission (EC) to be alert and remain vigilant so that no ill-motivated quarter can foil the upcoming parliamentary elections. foil

Indicating to the BNP-Jamaat alliance, he asserted that the people who had taken stand against the implementation of new electoral code of conducts, were the masterminds of the conspiracy to foil the December elections.

Amu made this remark while addressing the leaders and activists at a discussion meeting of Awami Sechhyasebak League in Institutions of Diploma Engineers in the city.

AL presidium members Tofail Ahmed and Suranjit Sen Gupta,among others, also addressed the discussion.

Amu said the BNP-Jamaat force is against the election, as chances are there for the Awami League to return to power.

He also called on all the political parties parties to accept the relaxed provisions in the Representation of the People Order Ordinance 2008 for the sake of democracy in the country.

Later, at an Iftar party at his Easkaton residence Amu told reporters that the long-awaited parliamentary polls cannot deferred in the face of irrational opposition from a particular force.

Tofail Ahmed expressed his dissatisfaction with the announced dates for upazila elections within less then one week of the national elections.

He opined that it would be difficult for the political parties to take part in the upazila elections because of time limitation.

He said at least five lakh poll workers would be needed to arrange the parliamentary polls, then how the government would manage workers within such a short gap for the upazila elections.

Expressing solidarity with his colleague Suranjit Sen Gupta said, " There should be a gap of at least 45 days between the general and upazila elections."