Terming Jatiya Party (JaPa) as an "ally of autocrat," Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad has announced to thwart JaPa's rally in the capital on Saturday.
Chhatra Odhikar Parishad President Bin Yamin Molla announced it at a press conference held at the TSC of Dhaka University on Friday (November 1).
Bin Yamin Molla said students, workers and other people would hold "mass resistance programme" in front of all the Jatiya Party offices across the country to foil what they claimed "covert attempts to revive Awami League."
He also called upon the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to refrain from giving permission to Jatiya Party holding its rally for preventing "violence and bloodshed."
He also called on the interim government to ban the political activities of Awami League and Jatiya Party, "warning of movement even against the government if the demand is not met."
Yamin Molla also alleged that Awami League cadres were assembled at the Jatiya Party's central office on Thursday in a pre-planned way. "As we reached Kakrail, they suddenly attacked us. You have heard that Jatiya Party has announced holding rally in the capital on Saturday. We have information that they will hold the rally bringing Awami League cadres from across the country."
"We have been issuing ultimatums repeatedly asking the government to ban the allies of fascists. They are trying to come back in different ways. We want to know clearly about the stand of the interim government regarding them. We want to know how the DMP Commissioner allows the allies of killers to hold rally. Jatiya Party will not be allowed to hold rally tomorrow (Saturday). Allowing Jatiya Party to hold a rally means another conspiracy to rehabilitate the Awami League," Yamin Molla said.
The Awami League-led government imposed an authoritarian rule over the country for more than 15 years till its ouster in a mass uprising on August 5 this year, and Jatiya Party remained its strongest political ally in the parliament during the tenure.
A few hours earlier, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader said the party would hold its preannounced rally in front of the party central office in Kakrail on Saturday, even if there are high risks to the lives of activists.
GM Quader said that though his party formed an alliance with Awami League in 2008, the party never supported the misdeeds of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina.
Furthermore, in January 2024, the party was forced by Awami League to take part in rigged national elections.
And yet, efforts are on to brand Jatiya Party as an "ally of fascists," a practice the party would protest against in its Saturday's rally.
