Ruling Awami League advisory council member Amir Hossain Amu said on Sunday that the election-time caretaker government had been abolished as 'it is undemocratic.'
'Undemocratic caretaker system cannot continue for an unlimited time,' he told a conference of the representatives of the party's Dhaka district chapter at Kazi Bashir Auditorium in the city.
The conference was organised as part of a decision of the party to hold countrywide programmes to explain the government's position in the face of criticism from the opposition.
Amu said that the AL-led coalition government abolished the 'unconstitutional system' from the constitution only to strengthen democracy.
He said that ruling Awami League took the decision to take the 'tough route of progress of democracy' to make democracy stronger.
Amu urged the ruling party workers to get united and reply to the opposition 'propaganda.'
AL organising secretary and LGRD state minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, office secretary and state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan, AL leaders Aktharuzzaman and Dhaka city unit leader and state minister for law Quamrul Islam and the district chapter general secretary Mahbubur Rahman spoke at the conference chaired by the district unit president Benzir Ahmed.
Nanak said that the opposition was trying call a movement by forming alliance with 'Oli, Moli, Toli.'
He urged the leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia not to create anarchy.
He said, 'If there is anarchy we would be compelled to take to the street'.
Chanting of slogans, hailing leaders present by their supporters, particularly of lawmaker Murad Jhong, ignoring requests from the party functionaries on the stage, disrupted the conference proceedings.
Nanak's speech was interrupted by slogans hailing Murad Jhong.
Unable to stop Chhatra League members from raising slogans, Nanak requested Murad Jhong to do it.
At one point Nanak had to tell Jhong, 'You better do it at Savar.'
AL leaders urged party workers to elect honest and competent leaders ready to sacrifice for the party at its upcoming elections at ward, union and upazila tiers.
Source : New Age
