Jatiya Ganotantrik League
A discussion on 84th birth anniversary of one of the organisers of the Liberation War and accused of Agartala Conspiracy Case Lieutenant Commander Moazzem Hossain organised by Jatiya Ganotantrik League will be held in the auditorium of Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad in the city’s Topkhana Road today at 4 pm. In the programme reception will also be accorded to the accused of Agartala Conspiracy Case, Col (Retd) M Shawkat Ali, Col (Retd) Shamsul Alam, LSDC Noor Mohammad, Corporal Abul Bashar Mohammad Abdus Samad, AG Khurshid and Surgeant Abdul Jalil. President of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun will attend the function as the chief guest while historian Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Standing Committee member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Inu) Mir Hossain Akhter, journalist Azizul Islam Bhuiyan, Awami League leader Advocate Balaram Poddar, Senior Vice-President of Bangladesh Krishak League Sheikh Mohammad Jahangir Alam and General Secretary of Bangabandhu Foundation Ferdous Alam as the special guests. President of the organisation MA Jalil will preside over the event.
Bangladesh National Alliance
Chairman of Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA) and Trinamool BNP Barrister Nazmul Huda in a statement on Friday said the question to participate in the national polls under any unelected government does not arise, as it would be contradictory to the constitution. He said this in the wake of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s demand for holding the national polls under a caretaker government or a neutral government. Huda said, “In accordance with the constitutional provision, the ruling elected government should discharge the duties of holding of the national polls through an independent and neutral Election Commission to be constituted by national consensus before the expiry of its (government) tenure.” “The present government should play the role of the neutral government for the purpose,” the BNA Chairman said adding that they (government) should remain accountable to the nation if they fail to discharge the duties in this regard as enshrined in the constitution. Huda said that BNA would not accept, in any way, any whimsical decision of the government conceding the demand of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
