‘People to vote for Awami League again’

She was addressing a party rally organised to observe Victory Day for Democracy on the third anniversary of the last parliamentary election. The rally was organised by Dhaka City North unit of AL at Russel Square in the capital. Matia said in the next election the popularity of the party will be proved again and the forward march of democracy in the country will go on. Warning BNP leaders not to try to mislead the country’s people, she said: “The way people of the country retaliated to the conspiracy of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her ally Jamaat-e-Islami during the January 5 polls, they would do the same in future too.” Accusing Khalada Zia of the violence to foil the election killing more than 100 people including law enforcers and government officials, Matia Chowdhury said: “Holding the election Sheikh Hasina on the one hand upheld the constitution and on the other hand saved the country’s people.” She observed that there was no crimes left which Khaleda Zia did not commit in a bid to foil the election. “She also tried to instigate usurpation, but the time has changed, you can at best scratch, but you won’t succeed.” Addressing Khaleda, Matia said: “For the wrong political steps, failures and undemocratic approach, your party has been ruined,” Matia hailed the role that the law enforcing agencies, government bodies, and people played on the Election Day in 2014 to hold the election, AL Presidium Member Syed Ashraful Islam at the rally said: “The hope of Khaleda Zia that she would go to power with the help of those in uniform in the cantonment would never be fulfilled. He also said those who boycott election every now and then, do not want democracy. He said without democracy, there will be no good governance. Meanwhile, Dhaka City South unit of AL organised another rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital yesterday. At the rally, central leaders of AL criticized the role BNP and its key ally Jamaat for the  violence unleashed to foil the election. The leaders also accused BNP of conspiring against the country's democracy and the government, which they said people will resist in the way they did before.