LDA to stage sit-in, submit memo to president demanding ‘fair’ polls

It threatens to enforce blockade

Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) yesterday announced a two-day programme, including a sit-in and a memorandum to President Abdul Hamid, to press for holding the next polls under a non-party neutral administration, reports UNB. As part of the programmes, the LDA will hold a ‘mass-sit-in’ programme across the country on October 23 and submit the memorandum to the president on October 29.

In the capital, the ‘mass-sit-in’ programme will be observed from 11am to 3pm in front of the Jatiya Press Club. LDA coordinator and Bangladesher Biplobi Workers Party general secretary Saiful Haque announced the programmes from their demonstration near the Secretariat. He urged the government to come up with a specific announcement by this month to quit power and take steps for forming a non-party election-time government through talks with political parties.

The LDA coordinator threatened that they will announce harsher programmes like blockade if the government does not quit power, dissolve parliament, reconstitute the Election Commission and form the election-time neutral government for holding an acceptable general election. He said the country’s people will no longer tolerate any unilateral election in the country. “We would like to say the government won't be able to hold a 2014 like election this time as people are now united to restore their voting rights.”

Earlier, several hundred leaders and activists of LDA, a platform of eight left-leaning parties, held a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club protesting the government's misrule, plundering and repressive acts, and demanding holding the next polls in a credible and acceptable manner under an impartial election-time government.

LDA to stage sit-in, submit memo to president demanding fair polls

It threatens to enforce blockade

Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) yesterday announced a two-day programme, including a sit-in and a memorandum to President Abdul Hamid, to press for holding the next polls under a non-party neutral administration, reports UNB. As part of the programmes, the LDA will hold a mass-sit-in programme across the country on October 23 and submit the memorandum to the president on October 29. In the capital, the mass-sit-in programme will be observed from 11am to 3pm in front of the Jatiya Press Club. LDA coordinator and Bangladesher Biplobi Workers Party general secretary Saiful Haque announced the programmes from their demonstration near the Secretariat. He urged the government to come up with a specific announcement by this month to quit power and take steps for forming a non-party election-time government through talks with political parties. The LDA coordinator threatened that they will announce harsher programmes like blockade if the government does not quit power, dissolve parliament, reconstitute the Election Commission and form the election-time neutral government for holding an acceptable general election. He said the countrys people will no longer tolerate any unilateral election in the country. We would like to say the government wont be able to hold a 2014 like election this time as people are now united to restore their voting rights. Earlier, several hundred leaders and activists of LDA, a platform of eight left-leaning parties, held a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club protesting the governments misrule, plundering and repressive acts, and demanding holding the next polls in a credible and acceptable manner under an impartial election-time government.