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"Despite having 90 percent seat in the Jatiya Sangsad, I called upon the opposition to join the polls-time interim government so that no doubt can arise centering the election."
SHEIKH HASINA
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
said that her invitation to main opposition BNP for joining the all-party election-time government is still effective
"Without consensus among political parties regarding the polls-time government, no election can be acceptable. For this reason, we will not participate in the election."
MUJAHIDUL ISLAM SELIM
CPB President
At a press briefing in the capital CPB officially announced that it would boycott the 10th parliamentary election slated for January 5
"Ershad spits and licks it back over night."
KAZI ZAFAR
Presidium Member of Ershad's Jatiya Party
Commented on Ershad's recent political steps
"I am sorry. I cannot make you [journalists] happy. There was no meeting between us. Those who are spreading such false and baseless news are doing so to create confusion."
MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR
Acting Secretary General of BNP
Denying having any meeting with Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam
"The compensation should take into calculation all the years of wages a worker would have been able to earn had she or he been alive. And as for the injured, it should be an aggregate of the earnings lost due to inability to work."
SRAMIK NIRAPATTA FORUM
A labour rights platform
Demanding adequate compensation for the family of the workers who died or injured in the fire at Tazreen Fashions a year ago
"Importantly, we'll also be able to track and discuss Bangladeshi efforts to improve worker safety and worker rights. This is an important priority for the United States as Bangladesh seeks to prevent more tragedies in its ready-made garment sector."
MICHAEL FROMAN
US Trade Representative
Assured after signing Ticfa agreement between United States and Bangladesh that it will help to improve workers' safety and rights
"Why four generations of a family are saying the same thing (on poverty) but doing nothing for the people of the country? Whenever elections come, Congress keeps chanting in the name of poor. But they will do nothing (to remove it). If poverty goes, so will their chairs."
NARENDRA MODI
BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate
While addressing a poll meeting on the last day of the campaigning for the November 25 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh
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