Sylhet Visit of Khaleda Zia Challenge For Ilias Ali
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia is leading a much anticipated anti-government road-march tomorrow from Dhaka to Sylhet. She is supposed to deliver a speech in the public-gathering organized by the Four-Party Alliance to take place the next day at the grounds of Alia Madrasha. She is coming to Sylhet for the first time since the ninth National Parliamentary Election was held. The members of the BNP party are considering Begum Khaleda Zia’s tour for this event as a challenge for the Organizing Secretary responsible for Sylhet Division, Mr. M Ilias Ali. On Monday, Begum Khaleda Zia will assess Mr. Ilias Ali, regarding his ability to unite the devastated Sylhet BNP post the 9/11 incident. Mr. Ilias Ali is also not sitting idle and is doing everything possible to make the post road-march public-gathering a success. Since dawn till late at night Mr. Ilias Ali is roaming from various areas to the deep interiors of the city. The BNP lead four Party Alliance candidates had a disastrous defeat in all nineteen seats of Sylhet Division in the last Ninth National Parliamentary Election. Mr. Ilias Ali was vested with the responsibility to put in order the disordered Sylhet BNP. After becoming the Organizing Secretary of the Central Committee of Sylhet division, the first task that Mr. Ilias Ali concentrated in doing was to unite the BNP leaders and members under one umbrella. He then rigorously visited the entire cross-section of almost all Thana's of the Sylhet district. The half-asleep leaders and members were awakened and became motivated by Mr. Ilias Ali ‘spell of unity’. After being given this responsibility, Mr. Ilias Ali had to face his first challenge which was the by-election. In order to achieve victory for the party nominated candidate, Mr. Ilias Ali campaigned at all municipal corporations. Among the sixteen municipal corporation fourteen candidates stood from BNP and among them nine gained victory. The spirit of the municipal-election was yet to be gone, when Mr. Ilias was faced with his second challenge, the Hobiganj-1 seat by-election. He snatched victory for the party-nominated candidate, Mr. Sheikh Sujat Miah, by acting on his behalf day and night. Even in the Union-Election, the result that BNP got was better than expected. However, the upcoming road-march and public-gathering of Begum Khaleda Zia on Monday is proving to be a much bigger challenge than any of the previous ones. In order to ascertain the participation of five lakh people in the public-gathering, public-communication, meeting, leaflet distribution and announcements are being carried out in all Districts and Thana's along with Slyhet City. The leaders and members of BNP are also in a festive mood. Mr. Ilias Ali wishes to present Begum Khaleda Zia with the Human sea in Sylhet, by utilizing the enthusiasm of the motivated leaders and members of Sylhet BNP.
With a view to make this challenge successful, the leaders and members of the opposition ring have also joined with him. According to the leaders and members of the party, if the expected number of people fail to gather in Begum Khaleda Zia’s public-meeting, all his achievements will be in vain. In the context of the road-march and public-meeting Mr. Ilias Ali said that, Protestants have started becoming vocal. People are looking forward to participate in Begum Khaleda Zia’s public-meeting in order to protest the failure, institutionalisation and corruption of the present government. Mr. Ilias Ali is not taking the success of Begum Khaleda Zia’s public-meeting as only his challenge. In his words, ‘This is a challenge for the patriotic citizens of Bangladesh to protect the sovereignty of the nation’s freedom’. He is hopeful that the public-meeting of Sylhet will exceed the public-gathering of the public-meeting which took place in Dhaka.
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