Opposition strike hits Dhaka
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World News > Dhaka, Oct 10 : Shops were shut in Bangladesh as most vehicles stayed off the roads in a daylong strike called by opposition parties to demand the resignation of the government.
Security was tight as riot police and special forces fanned out to deter violence. Bangladesh is reeling from floods that have inundated large areas of the country, leaving thousands of families to battle with hunger and disease.
"The country has not failed but the government has failed, the whole alliance has failed because of their inefficiency, because of their non governance, because of their lack of sense of responsibility and because of their greed to grab money, wealth and power," Motia Chowdhury, former minister and leader of the opposition Awami League party that called the strike along with its allies, said.
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party has refused to step down even a day before its five-year term ends in October 2006.
Analysts said the League's campaign was unlikely to drive Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia from power as she controlled a two- thirds majority in the 300-member parliament and has strong support in the countryside. Sunday is a working day in Muslim- majority Bangladesh. The Awami League and its allies are using the strike, one of several after party chief Sheikh Hasina escaped a grenade attack at a rally on Aug. 21, to condemn that attack and focus on what they say is growing lawlessness. The Awami League will launch a sustained campaign to oust the "corrupt, inefficient and repressive government" in mid-November, following the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, senior leaders said. (ANI)
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