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Mr. Jalil's 'trump card'

2 May 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By G Ahmed, Dhaka
2 May 2004, 18:00 PM
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It was pathetic to look at a tired opposition MP when he was speaking to different media during the hartal hours on April 28. He was pale and tired, although he tried to speak with strength to highlight the government's nervousness, instead of his own party being cornered and humiliated by an unkind government's law and order enforcement machinery. The MP really looked helpless when he said that they had even agreed not to chant any slogan!

The drama was staged by none other than Mr. MA Jalil, another hon'ble MP and the veteran secretary general of the AL . It was really surprising when we read in newspapers that many of the AL MPs expressed their ignorance about the much talked about 'trump card' of Mr. Jalil and his prediction on the fall of the government by April 30.

I believe Mr. Jalil has already played his 'trump card'. His 'trump card' was to announce a date for the government's exit after which apparently disgruntled people in hundreds of thousands would come to the streets of Dhaka to give support to the AL call for the government's resignation. Mr. Jalil was playing a blind game. Now tired and embarrassed, he is telling that the deadline of 30th April was given by the journalists!

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Now that the game is over, who will pay for the sufferings of the party men and many others in the hands of the law enforcers ? AL leadership should have calculated all the options which the government might resort to before they launched such a movement.

I believe Mr. Jalil should think in terms of his own exit from this important position because of his total failure to lead this historical party along the right path.