Awami League's Dhaka metropolitan wing has instructed its members to 'take positions' in their own areas during the BNP's countrywide shutdown slated for Thursday.
An extended meeting of the organisation on Tuesday gave out the orders that anarchic activities by the opposition were to be stopped and anyone committing arson or vandalism 'captured' and handed over to police.
Metropolitan Awami League general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya also announced that a rally would be held at Muktangan on Wednesday protesting the daylong general strike to be enforced by BNP to protest against the increase in fuel prices.
"As Awami League members, we cannot accept Jamaat-e-Islami's efforts to create anarchy. The people are looking up to us," Maya said.
He alleged that the clashes between police and BNP's ally Jamaat on Monday were efforts to foil the trial of war crimes. Top leaders of the Islamist party are behind bars facing charges of committing crimes against humanity during the nation's war of independence against Pakistan in 1971..
"The people want war criminals tried and they have faith in this government," Maya said.
Senior Awami League leaders and MPs were also present at the meeting.
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