The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Awami League acting president Zillur Rahman yesterday warned that any conspiracy to foil the parliamentary election on December 18 would be resisted by all means even by applying forcing.

Zillur was addressing the party leaders and workers when a team of Jubo League activists led by its General Secretary Mirza Azam, who was recently released after 22 months imprisonment, came to meet him at his Gulshan residence.

He apprehended that the achievements of the 1/11 political changeover would go in vain if the elections were not held in time.

"Holding elections in December 18 is a must to sustain the achievements of the government and the political parties in the last two years after 1/11 political changeover," Zillur asserted.

Asked to explain the resons for being sceptical about the parliamentary polls when the government has repeatedly assured that the election would be held in time, Zillur referred to the meeting of Jamaat's general secretary Ali Ahsan Md. Mujahid's meeting with the advisers at the Chief Adviser's office evading arrest The government has lost its credibility as the Chief Adviser did not hesitate to hold a meeting with such a person who is skipping arrest in a graft case, he added.

Zillur said the December 18 elections should not be deferred under any circumstances and the release of Sheikh Hasina is a must to hold the elections in a free and fair manner.

About the much-talked-about grand alliance, he said the arrangement of the grand alliance would be finalised after party chief Sheikh Hasina's return from the United States.