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The Awami League leaders described Wednesday's High Court orders on the writ petitions challenging the validity of preparing a new electoral roll as people's victory and urged the Prime Minister to remove the Chief Election Commissioner.
''No neutral election is possible under this Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and if any poll is held under him the countrymen will reject it," AL Senior Presidium Member Abdur Razzak MP told a protest rally on the city's Bangabandhu Avenue Thursday.
The AL-led 14-party combine organised the rally demanding proper investigation into all terror attacks, including the August 21 grenade attack on AL really and probe into trials of SAMS Kibria and Ahsanulluh Master killings.
Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon presided over the rally, report agencies.
Razzak said the next general election would be held only after the opposition proposals for reforming the caretaker government system and the Election Commission are implemented.
Terming Jamaat leaders Nizami and Quamaruzzaman and Mohiuddin godfathers of the bombers, Razzak demanded that sedition charges be brought against them.
Another AL presidium member Tofail Ahmed alleged that Prime Minister Khaleda Zia had turned Bangladesh into a sea of blood. "If the people can exercise their franchise they'll push the alliance regime into grave," he said.
Tofail urged the people to get united and join the opposition's anti-government movement to topple the Khaleda-Nizami coalition government.
AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil MP said enumeration work still continues despite the High Court order against it.
The rally was addressed, among others, by AL leaders Matia Chowdhury and Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, JSD leader Syed Zafar Sajjad, Ganotantri Party chief Nurul Islam, Gano Forum leader Pankaj Bhattachrya, Shamyabadi Dal leader Dilip Barua, Gano Azadi League leader Alhaj Abdus Samad and Adv Enamul Huq of NAP.
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