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Dhaka, Mar 9 Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked party leaders to be on alert during the opposition's Mar 12 rally.
She also ordered a bigger gathering for the 14-party Grand Alliance's rally on March 14 than the one held in Mar 7.
Awami League leaders said prime minister Hasina gave the directives at a meeting in the evening at her official residence, Ganabhaban.
The meeting was attended by Awami League's general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, joint general secretary Mahabub-ul-Alam Hanif, organising secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Ahmad Hossain and A F M Bahauddin Nasim.
President and general secretaries of Dhaka metropolitan, Dhaka district, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Gazipur, and Narshingdi district chapters of Awami League were also present at the meeting.
Hanif said that the prime minister had called the meeting to discuss issues relating to the ruling coalition's rally.
"The leader has ordered us to be on high alert ahead of the opposition's 'Dhaka Cholo' programme on March 12," said one of the leaders who attended the meeting on condition that he not be named.
The Awami League is fearing that acts of sabotage may be carried out from the BNP rally.
Hanif, also the prime minister's special assistant, in a meeting in the morning said, "BNP wants to carry out subversive acts on Mar 12. Moreover, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka himself has threatened the ministers and AL MPs not to come out of their houses on Mar 12."
At the same meeting, state minister for law Qamrul Islam said that the AL activists and MPs from Dhaka would come out on the street on Mar 12 to ensure public security.
Meanwhile, a media release issued by Bangladesh Chhatra League on Friday stated that the organisation would also stay on the streets.
She also ordered a bigger gathering for the 14-party Grand Alliance's rally on March 14 than the one held in Mar 7.
Awami League leaders said prime minister Hasina gave the directives at a meeting in the evening at her official residence, Ganabhaban.
The meeting was attended by Awami League's general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, joint general secretary Mahabub-ul-Alam Hanif, organising secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Ahmad Hossain and A F M Bahauddin Nasim.
President and general secretaries of Dhaka metropolitan, Dhaka district, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Gazipur, and Narshingdi district chapters of Awami League were also present at the meeting.
Hanif said that the prime minister had called the meeting to discuss issues relating to the ruling coalition's rally.
"The leader has ordered us to be on high alert ahead of the opposition's 'Dhaka Cholo' programme on March 12," said one of the leaders who attended the meeting on condition that he not be named.
The Awami League is fearing that acts of sabotage may be carried out from the BNP rally.
Hanif, also the prime minister's special assistant, in a meeting in the morning said, "BNP wants to carry out subversive acts on Mar 12. Moreover, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka himself has threatened the ministers and AL MPs not to come out of their houses on Mar 12."
At the same meeting, state minister for law Qamrul Islam said that the AL activists and MPs from Dhaka would come out on the street on Mar 12 to ensure public security.
Meanwhile, a media release issued by Bangladesh Chhatra League on Friday stated that the organisation would also stay on the streets.
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