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Vowing that all upcoming city elections, including Gazipur city one, will be free and fair, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the government will not interfere in the elections. 

"It will be shown that how to make elections fair under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina," he told a protest rally here.

Dhaka South City unit of Awami League arranged the rally in front of the party`s Bangabandhu Avenue central office, protesting the death threat given recently to AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said whether anyone comes to elections or not, the next general elections will be held in the same way. 

He said BNP wants to halt the upcoming elections, but the AL in association with the country`s people will resist BNP men.

Blaming that BNP wants conflict, instability, disorder and bloodshed in the country, the AL general secretary said the ruling party AL wants to hold elections peacefully to give the country`s democracy an institutional shape.

Welcoming foreign observers to the next general elections, he said: "The foreign observers will be invited to the elections".

Quader said BNP is trying to make the next parliamentary polls questionable sensing that the AL`s victory cannot be prevented in any way in the upcoming national elections.

AL presidium member Advocate Quamrul Islam, joint general secretaries - Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretary Afzal Hossain and general secretary of Dhaka South City AL Humayun Kabir, among others, spoke at the rally with Dhaka South City AL president Abu Ahmed Mannafi in the chair.