No election if govt denies reforms
Say 14-party leaders
Staff Correspondent
The leaders of Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday said they will not allow any election if the ruling alliance refuses to carry out the opposition-proposed reforms in the caretaker government and electoral systems. Awami League (AL) will soon return to parliament to table the proposals for reforms, they reiterated, addressing a rally at city's Muktagan. But if Khaleda-Nizami government rejects the proposals, the opposition lawmakers will resign en bloc from the House, the leaders added. The 14-party alliance organised the rally as part of a countrywide agitation programme protesting mass arrest of the opposition activists in the build-up to the long march and grand rally on February 5. AL Secretary General Abdul Jalil said urged the countrymen to intensify the ongoing movement and force the BNP-Jamaat government to implement the reforms. He said the present government portrays itself as an Islamic government but it has not yet condemned the Danish cartoon ridiculing prophet Muhammad (Sm). "We extremely condemn the cartoons and seek apology from the authorities of Denmark and other European countries," he added. Jalil said the people as well as the opposition alliance will never accept a 'caretaker government hand-picked by the present government'.
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