Impartial election is not possible under the much criticised EC where election commissioners have been appointed considering political affiliation, they said at a discussion organised by Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee at the National Press Club to mark its 14th founding anniversary.

The speakers emphasised the need for unity against the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government to save the country and countrymen from the clutch of the defeated forces of 1971.

Paying tributes to Jahanara Imam who formed the Nirmul Committee and launched a movement against the war criminals in 1992, they said a leader like her is very needed to rescue the country from the present crisis.

National Professor Kabir Chowdhury said free and fair election could not be held without ousting the present election commissioners.

Awami League Presidium Member Abdur Razzak said the alliance government is staying in power through exploding bombs by militants.

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Huq Inu said the government has committed seven misdeeds including torture on minority, repression on opposition activists, politicisation of different sectors, bomb attack and grabbing of election commission.

Nirmul Committee Vice-president Prof Muntasir Mamun, Workers' Party President Rashed Khan Menon, Communist Party President Monjurul Ahsan Khan, Indigenous Leader Promad Mankin, Widow of a martyred intellectual Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury and Journalist KG Mustafa also spoke.