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Monday, September 22, 2003

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High profile BNP team leaves for China today

DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT ,The Independent

A high powered BNP delegation led by its Secretary General and LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan leaves Dhaka today on a week-long goodwill visit to China.

The delegation which will visit China at the invitation of the Central Polit Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party will include first Joint Secretary General of the ruling party Tarique Rahman. This is the first ever visit of Tarique Rahman to a country as one of the top leaders of the party founded by his father at the invitation of that country.

The delegation which will visit a number of important Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzen and XI also include State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar, State Minister for Agriculture Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Ziaur Rahman MP and Helaluzzaman MP.

During the visit, the members of the delegation will call on leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, hold meetings with high- ranking officials, see agricultural projects and water plants and will have sight seeing tours.

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AL leaders pledge mass movement

STAFF REPORTER , The Independent

Leaders of Awami League said yesterday that the people of the country had to lead an unbearable life nowadays due to the misrule of the BNP-led alliance government.

They called upon people irrespective of political opinion to launch a mass movement to unseat this corrupt government from power with a view to establishing a people-welfare state.

The leaders of Awami League made this appeal while exchanging opinions with the leaders of intellectual and business communities, professional bodies and the owners and workers’ organisations in the road transport sector at the party central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city.

Dhaka City Awami League organised the exchange of opinion meeting seeking opinions from the leaders of these bodies on issues like the present state of business and trade, price spiral of essential commodities and the deterioration in law and order situation, rise in the incidents of terrorism, killing, rape, extortion, abduction, lack of safety and security in public life.

The central and city unit leaders of the Awami League also urged the leaders of these organisations to make the nation-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the party on Thursday (September 25) a success ensuring participation of the people from all walks of life.

Presided over by Dhaka City Awami League president and former mayor of the city Mohammad Hanif, the opinion exchange meeting was also addressed by, among others, party joint secretary Obaidul Quader, central leader Omar Ali, city AL general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya (Bir Bikram), general secretary of Dhaka Bar Association Mokhlesur Rahman Badal, joint secretary of Nawapur Shop-owners Association Kamal Hossain, Md Ibrahim of the Hardware Association, president of Karwan Bazar Kitchen Market Association Abul Miah, Bipul Ghosh of Tanti Bazar Traders Association, general secretary of Wet-blue Leather Traders Association Delwar Hossain, a leader of Baitul Mukarram Jewellery Association Mujibur Rahman and vice-president of Chandrima Super Market Shop-owners Association Abdul Aziz, among others.

Leaders of the City Awami League who represented the party included Fazlur Rahman Mallick, Dr Iskandar Mirza, Advocate Quamrul Islam, Feazuddin Miah, Sheikh Bazlur Rahman, Mohammad Selim, Abdul Huq Sabuj, Advocate Shamsuddin Ahmed Nilu, Advocate Mehbub Alam, Kamal Chowdhury, Abdul Kuddus, Awlad Hossain, Kazi Abdul Hye, Mukul Chowdhury, Dr Dilip Roy, SM Mannan Kochi and Shahin Laskar, among others.

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