Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 928 Mon. January 08, 2007  
   
Metropolitan


Ensuring fair polls only way to resolve crisis: CPB


Ensuring a free and fair election with the participation of all political parties to establish an elected government is the only way to resolve the existing crisis, said Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim yesterday.

At a meeting at the party office in the city, Selim criticised foreign interference in country's internal political issues and said people will accept no formulas like unilateral election, declaration of emergency, third party, national government or prolonged caretaker government.

"We have to establish our rights through our mass movement," he added.

Presided over by Dhaka City Committee President Abdul Kader, the meeting was also addressed by Ruhin Hossain Prince, Mahbub Alam, Ahsan Habib Lablu and Dilip Bepari.

Condemning the mass arrest, baton charge and obstructing the movement of people, the speakers said no undemocratic force could ever stay in power by choosing the path of repression.

They called for immediate stopping of mass arrest and release of those arrested.

The speakers also urged all to make success the party programmes including tomorrow's demonstration, demonstration with black flag on Saturday and protest march to 'reject the farcical election' from January 14 to 20 across the country.