The Awami League-led grand alliance secured 262 seats in Monday’s 9th Jatiya Sangsad election outplaying the BNP-led four-party combine that got only 32, according to unofficial results of 299 constituencies available yesterday.
The AL bagged 230 seats while its ally Jatiya Party (Ershad) got 27, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) three and Workers Party two seats.
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The grand electoral alliance’s last campaign rally led by Awami League President Sheikh Hasina at Laldighi Maidan in the port city of Chittagong yesterday turned into an ocean of people again, spilling over onto the adjacent roads and alleyways.
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Awami League President Sheikh Hasina today urged the people to vote the AL-led grand alliance to power to help establish Bangladesh as a developed country free from corruption and terrorism.
“We want to present you a standard life through removing unemployment and ensuring education and healthcare for all,” Hasina told a mammoth public rally at historic Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong this afternoon. [Read more →]
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Business leaders of the country today asked Awami League President Sheikh Hasina to ensure hartal and violence-free politics if her party is voted to power.
At a view-exchange meeting at Sonargaon Hotel in the city, the businessmen sought pledges from Hasina for uninterrupted power and gas supply, and improved communication infrastructure for economic development.
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Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her life is under threat since a certain quarter is afraid of the mass surge in favour of Boat, her party’s electoral symbol, ahead of the parliamentary election.
“You have already read in newspapers about the apprehension of attacks on me. I am the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and I am not scared of any threats,” she said.
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Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina today urged the country people to vote for grand alliance to establish peace and prosperity.
“Cast your vote in favour of the grand alliance for the peace and prosperity of the country and drive off crime, corruption and militancy,” Hasina told the people thronged at her rallies in Gazipur and Tangail.
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Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged to take measurers to stop repression on religious minorities and build a developed Bangladesh free from poverty and hunger, if voted to power.
“Cast your vote for boat and we shall build a secular and democratic Bangladesh free from torture and repression where all religious communities will be able to practise their religions freely,” said Hasina.
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Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she faced “foreign” pressure to sell country’s natural gas to other countries during her rule between 1996 and 2001 but did not give in.
“I as the daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman neither yielded to any pressure nor agreed to sell gas,” said the former premier without naming the pressure group.
Hasina was addressing several election rallies on her three-day tour to South including Tungipara, Gopalganj through which she started her election campaign outside Dhaka.
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Nation pays homage to martyred intellectuals amid renewed demand
The mourning procession commemorating martyred intellectuals paraded through Dhaka University campus with rickshaw-pullers passing by singing the national anthem and flag-hawkers in solemn silence following intellectuals, teachers, students, artists, cultural activists and journalists.
As the procession ended at fine arts institute some rickshaw-pullers and flag-hawkers joined the crowd and raised hands together making a vow to boycott the war criminals in the upcoming election and bring them to justice.
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Economists have termed the Awami League’s projection of time-bound economic plans in its electoral manifesto a good sign and said it would hold the party accountable to the people.
They said it would also help time-to-time monitoring of the specific short- and long-term visionary plans the party has formulated focusing on economic targets.
The economic programmes incorporated in the AL election manifesto depend on financing and implementation strategy, they added.
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