They called upon the people to intensify the on-going anti-government agitation and to join Awami League's 'grand rally' in Dhaka tomorrow in a massive way to express their no-confidence against it.

They were addressing public meetings in Madaripur and Tangpur on Sunday.

A Correspondent reports from Madaripur: Price hike of essentials and fertiliser, grenade attacks and bomb blasts are gifts of the alliance government for the people, Motia Chowdhury said at the public meeting held at the Sadar Jam-e-Masjid ground.

People's life and property are not safe under the rule of the government she said and urged the people to join the anti-government agitation.

"Whenever BNP comes to power, prices of fetiliser and rice soar", he alleged. "Because this is not a pro-people government".

She said IRRI-Boro cultivation is being affected throughout the country due to high prices of fertiliser and fuel, the former agriculture minister said.

The ruling party men are sheltering fanatic Islamist groups, who are creating violence in the country in the name of Islam, she alleged, saying, this is tarnishing the image of the country abroad.

She claimed that the ban on JMB (Jamaatul Mujahidin) and JMJB (Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh) is a hoax by the government. "How the government which sheltered them for three years can try them now?"

These fanatics are misleading the people in the name of Islam and establishing Islamic rule in the country, she claimed.

With Madaripur district AL President Ferdous Jamader in the chair, the meeting was also addressed by, among others, Shahjahan Khan MP, Syed Abul Hossain MP, Col (Retd) Showkat Ali MP and Jahangir Kabir.

Our Rangpur Correspondent reports: Awami League Presidium member Mohiudin Khan Alamgir called upon the people to be unite once again as during the Liberation War to unseat the "failed government".

He was addressing a public meeting, held at GL Roy Road in the town.

It was addressed by, among others, AL Publicity Secretary Asaduzzaman Noor MP, Mostafizur Rahman MP, Sarfuddin Ahmed Zhontu, Elias Ahmed, Mosaddique Hossen Bablu and Moazzem Hossen Lovelu. Sha Abdur Razzak presided.

Alamgir said people want peace and development, which the alliance government has failed to provide.

Referring to the murder of AL leaders SAMS Kibria, Ivy Rahman and Ahsanullah Master, he said his party does not expect trial of the murders during the tenure of the government. People will try the killers after the government is dislodged, he said.

He called upon the people to join tomorrow's Awami League rally and intensify the agitation to hasten fall of the government.

Losing people's confidence, the ruling parties are now utilising state forces to suppress the opposition to cling to power, he alleged.

But this will not be able to suppress people's agitation, he said.

Asaduzzaman Noor said so-called Islamic militants under the direct patronization of the BNP-led coalition government are killing Awami League leaders and pro-liberation forces. Journalists are also not spared.