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Bangladesh opposition rejects request to find alternatives to general strike

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BNP [Bangladesh Nationalist Party] Secretary-General Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday sharply rebuffed a request by business leaders that the opposition find alternatives to economically crippling dawn-to-dusk hartals [general strikes]. Delwar accused A.K. Azad, the president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), of bias in the country's political affairs, including the highly partisan general strikes. "The president of a business organization like the FBCCI should not make any biased statement," he said at a press conference at the party's central office in Naya Paltan. "We did not expect anything else from him [Azad], as he is a 'nominated president' of FBCCI," said Delwar. Why, asked the BNP leader, did the business group not criticise the Awami League's 173 days of hartal during the BNP regime. Azad said he never supported hartal programmes, as they damage the economy. "Hartal hampers the flow of both home and overseas investment," Azad said. The FBCCI president said that the business community had the strength and capacity to stand against the BNP hartal, but later he said that it was his personal opinion.

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