Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
yesterday condemned the
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
-led government for the January 5 election and the misdeeds during its previous term, and also asked it to initiate a dialogue immediately for an inclusive election.
Khaleda also questioned the join force's drive in Satkhira and the law enforcers' role in Gaibandha clash with Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
saying that people were sceptical about their operations. She also criticised the government for closing the daily Inqilab and arresting its three journalists.
In her speech at the post-election rally in the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan, the three-time former premier refrained from declaring any fresh agitation and asked the party supporters to observe programmes peacefully.
The alliance after the election they had boycotted declared black flag processions across the country for January 29, the day when the first session of 10th parliament sits.
Khaleda said the BNP did not want instability, rather peace and development. "I am not urging you to do any war. You just wage peaceful movement." She hoped that the government would not obstruct the programme.
Though Khaleda earlier announced that the alliance will hold the rally, on Sunday night, the party announced that they would organise it alone. Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
, Khelafat Andolon and Jamaat-e-Ulamaye Islam leaders were not seen at the venue even though a huge number of activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
attended the alliance's rallies in the past.
The BNP, which apparently fails to resist the January 5 polls even sponsoring non-stop agitations resulting in violence and destruction, has been sticking to pre-poll position on resolving the political crisis through a dialogue.
Addressing a rally after nearly two and a half months at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan, Khaleda thanked people for "boycotting" the "farcical" election and urged the government to hold fresh poll. The previous rally took place on October 25.
She said it was necessary to initiate a dialogue immediately with a view to hold an acceptable election to bring peace in the country.