The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

BNP Secretary General Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday reiterated the demand for lifting the state of emergency without any delay ahead of parliamentary election on December 29.

He urged the government to lift the emergency rule immediately and abandon the Representation of People Order (RPO) Section 91 (E) for holding free and fair election in the country.

"The state of emergency must certainly be withdrawn ahead of the parliamentary polls," he told the journalists after a meeting of the secretaries general of alliance on election climate and government's promises to fulfil the their demands.

Delwar reiterated demand to lift the state of emergency from the day of withdrawal of nominations.

The secretaries general of the four-party alliance yesterday held a meeting to assess the government's commitment to fulfilling the four-point charters of demand by the alliance.

Chowdhury Tanveer Ahmed Siddiquie, standing committee member of BNP, Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami and Moulana Abdul Latif Nezami, Secretary General of Islami Oikkya Jote (IOJ), among others, were present.

Earlier, at a protest rally at Central Shaheed Minar, the Secretary General of BNP demanded of the government for immediate release of BNP leader and former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda.

"The government intentionally has put our popular leaders to the bar so that they could not contest in the polls," he mentioned.

Sigma Huda, wife of Nazmul Huda and other BNP leaders, among others, took part in the rally.