Left parties concerned over AL`s defeat in Gazipur polls

DHAKA, July 10: Leaders of 10-left leaning political parties on Wednesday at a meeting expressed concern over the defeat of Awami League led alliance mayoral candidate in Gazipur City Corporation and other city corporations in the country.
 
If such defeats are continued in the upcoming national elections, the country will again face rightist political forces and the communal forces emerged, the left leaders said at the resolution of the meeting.
 
The trials of the war criminals of the war of independence of 1971, would be uncertain if the regime was changed, they said.
 
The ruling Awami League became detached from the people, compromise with the communal and Islamist bigots, internal conflicts of the leaders of the party and lack of proper coordination were the main causes of defeat of the alliance candidates in the CC elections, they said.
 
The government could continue the rule of non-communal democratic process in the country, holding trials of the war criminals, banning the Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir and resolving the issue of election time government during upcoming national elections, the left leaders said.
 
They called on all the non-communal and democratic political forces to come forward to form a national unity to save the country.
 
Chaired by president of the president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, Rashed Khan Menon, the meeting held at its central office were attended, among others by party`s general secretary Anisur Rahman Mollick, president of the Oikya NAP, Pankaj Bhattachrya, Ganatantri Party general secretary Nurur Rahman Selim, Samyabadi Dal politburo member Lutfar Rahman and Dipyan Khisha.