Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed all leaders and activists of the party to resist the activities of evil communal forces.
At the same time, she called upon the people of Bangladesh to uphold the thousand-year-old tradition of communal harmony at all costs.
The Prime Minister gave the directives at an emergency meeting at her Dhanmondi political office on Monday (October 18) evening.
She said that at a time when Bangladesh has been established as a dignified state in the world community, an identified group is deliberately trying to create communal violence in the country. The government has identified the conspirators. Many have already been arrested and the process of bringing the rest under the law is underway.
She added that the government was keeping a close watch on the situation and had taken necessary steps to prevent a recurrence of such terrorist incidents.
The meeting was attended by Awami League presidium members Abdur Razzak, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Abdur Rahman, Joint-General Secretary Hasan Mahmud, AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretary BM Mozammel Haque, SM Kamal Hossain, Forest and Environment Secretary Delwar Hossain, Office Secretary Biplob Barua, Deputy Publicity and Publication Secretary Aminul Islam Amin, Deputy Office Secretary Sayem Khan, Member of the Central Executive Committee Anwar Hossain, Syed Abdul Awal Shamim and others.