Some pressures exist over Jan 7 polls: Quader

Staff Reporter :
Ruling Awami League General Secretary and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said some pressures existed over the January 7 general elections and a result Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen had written to the United Nations on the issue.

“There are some pressures over the next polls in our country. Visa restrictions and sanctions have been in talks for several times. Our foreign minister just informed the UN authorities about the conspiracy over the election,” Obaidul Quader said while responding to a question over FM’s letter to the UN at a briefing at the AL president’s political office in the capital.

The AL leader also said that the United States had imposed sanctions on 13 countries and 37 personalities; Bangladesh was not in the list.

He claimed that the AL has been fighting to establish human rights in Bangladesh since the beginning of the party.
The minister feared about famine in Bangladesh by March next year.

He said that AL had taken political and other measures to tackle the situation what it did in the past.

He urged Awami League leaders and activists to remain vigilant against BNP’s ‘plan’ to create anarchy on December 10 labeling the main opposition party as anti-election forces.

AL presidium members Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Kamrul Islam, its joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretary Mirza Azam and office secretary Biplab Barua, among others, were present at the event.