Neither the government nor the Awami League-led 14-party alliance would hold any dialogue or come to any compromise with the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, said the top leaders of the grand alliance.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, also the praesidium member of the ruling party, made the statement on behalf of the coalition leaders, while talking to journalists after holding a party meeting on the ongoing nationwide violence and sabotage by the BNP-Jamaat members.
The meeting was held at the political headquarters of the party chief, Sheikh Hasina, in the capital's Dhanmondi at 3pm on Thursday.
The minister said: “Neither the government nor the Awami League-led 14-party will not hold any dialogue with those, who are killing innocent people, especially women and children in the name of movement.”
“The district level committees of the 14-party grand alliance are determined to prevent and protest the ongoing subversive activities by the BNP-Jamaat members across the country.”
He urged the junior home boss Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, who was present in the meeting, to extend his administrative support to the “Terrorism Prevention Committees” in order to resist the “BNP-Jamaat terrorists.”
In reply, the state minister for home said: “I will ask the deputy commissioners to form those committees in every district with the help of 14-party members. The law enforcers will also help the committee members to prevent terrorism.”
The grand alliance also announced some programmes, protesting the ongoing nationwide incidents of violence.
On January 17, they would stage a rally in Rangpur's Mithapukur area in protest against the arson attack on a passenger bus that claimed four lives and injured 15 others.
On January 18, they alliance members would hold another protest rally in Gaibandha's Polashbari area.
The health minister further said they would stage several numbers of road marches in different important points of the capital in regular basis, protesting the “terrorist activities” by BNP-Jamaat men.
Nasim added: “Enough is enough. The BNP-Jamaat would not be let committing any subversive activities in the country. We are determined to prevent them from doing so.”
Political tensions between the Awami League-led Government and the BNP-led 20-party alliance have been increased in January 2015 on the first anniversary of the January 5, 2014 parliamentary elections, which the BNP boycotted.
The BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been kept confined to her Gulshan party office since January 3. Later, the party declared a non-stop nationwide blockade on January 5.
The current blockade has been marked by violence and sporadic clashes between the police and protesters, leaving a number of people killed and injured.
