Senior Joint Secretary General of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said, ‘Jail has now become the permanent address of BNP leaders and workers. Daylight should be banned for BNP.’
He said these things while speaking as the chief guest at the stand program organized by the Zia Generation Dal in front of the National Press Club on Friday (April 19). The sit-in program was organized to demand the unconditional release of imprisoned BNP activists.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that it is forbidden for BNP leaders and activists to take free air. They have to stay in jail all the time. The program of putting BNP activists in jail seems to be never ending. I think she (Sheikh Hasina) is suffering from panic. This is because, he knows, he has no public support. Without public support, governments become fiercely authoritarian, fascistic, and repress through repression when popular voices are voiced.
He also said that 25,000 to 26,000 BNP leaders and activists were in jail for about four months ahead of a dummy election. Thousands of activists are still imprisoned. Can Sheikh Hasina answer this? The whole nation thinks that you have put them in jail with various sabotage cases and false cases in the name of activists and democracy activists.
Under the chairmanship of Advocate Parveen Kausar Munni and Md. Sarwar Hossain Rubel’s program was also attended by Dhaka Metropolitan South BNP Convener Bir Muktijoddha Abdus Salam, BNP Volunteer Affairs Secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Shafu, Chhatra Dal General Secretary Nasir Uddin Nasir and others.
‘Prison is now the permanent address of BNP activists’ – 2024-04-19 17:48:00
When will the results of the elections in Abruzzo be known?
It’s the night of results from Abruzzo. There are 1,208,276 Abruzzo citizens (592,041 men and 616,235 women) who were called to the polls for the election of the President of the Region and for the renewal of the Regional Council.
The special elections in Abruzzo – The results
Exit polls and projections
When the polls closed at 11pm, the counting of the ballot papers began immediately. The local TV Rete8 broadcast the exit polls of Antonio Noto: two by midnight, then 15 minutes after midnight the first screening.
In the previous elections, in 2019, the first indications of the real counting on the vote of the Abruzzo people arrived around two in the morning. At three o’clock the consolidated result, that is the victory of Marcus Marsilio of the centre-right which obtained 48.03% of the votes (its coalition 49.20%) over the challenger of the centre-left, Giovanni Legnini which reached 31.29% (his coalition, with 7 lists, reached 30.64%). On that occasion they also introduced themselves Sara Marcozzi for M5S which obtained 20.20%, e Stefano Flajani which had 0.48%
The previous vote in Sardinia
The counting in Abruzzo should proceed without a hitch, unlike the slow one in Sardinia which lasted about two days. With a “sensational” misalignment between the official data of the counting in Sardinia, those published by the Region’s website, and the numbers already released by the websites of the individual Municipalities”. At 10am, three hours after the reopening of the 1,887 sections to be counted in Sardinia, on the official website of the Sardinia Region had not yet uploaded a single piece of data. At 1pm, six hours after the start of the electoral operations, only 5% of the ballots had been counted. around 27%. At 6pm only one section in two was scrutinized. And after 10 hours from the start of the counting, the first suspicions Alessandra Todde in fact, strong “disappointment at the Region’s choice not to upload the data of the large municipalities where Todde is ahead” was revealed. Starting with Cagliari and Sassari. The 7pm “trap” loomed over the operations, the deadline by which the counting operations had to be completed within the legal deadlines. A trap which, however, was no longer applied.
Now Abruzzo goes to the vote a few weeks after the election of Alessandra Todde to the presidency of the Sardinia Region. His narrow victory over the centre-right candidate, Paolo Truzzohas rekindled hopes among the minority parties of also conquering Abruzzo and there are those who consider today’s electoral round a test in view of the European elections in early June.
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– 2024-04-19 17:15:07
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US President Joe Biden Orders Investigation and Tariff Increase on Chinese Steel and Aluminum
2024-04-18 02:44:52
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked the Office of the Trade Representative to study increasing tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, accusing Beijing of “unfair and non-market” practices. Biden directed this government office to triple the fees from their current level, but stressed that the matter is not related to a trade war with this global economic power. This increase may have political and electoral dimensions. The American President seeks to attract mining workers in the country, and his announcement of this step came before an election rally at the headquarters of the Mining Industries Workers Union in Pennsylvania.
Published on: 04/18/2024 – 04:44
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In a move that may reignite trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world, he called US President Joe Biden On Wednesday, the office of his country’s trade representative, Katherine Tai, to consider tripling customs duties on Chinese steel and aluminum. At the same time, the Office of the Trade Representative, which advises the president, announced the opening of an investigation into “unfair” trade practices carried out by Beijing in the shipbuilding, navigation, and logistics sectors, but China considered the American investigation “full of false accusations.”
Biden stressed that he does not want to get involved “trade war” With China, against the backdrop of the increase he intends to impose on steel and aluminum customs duties from Beijing, in a new signal directed at a group of voters whose support he needs amid his electoral campaign to win a new term.
With the presidential elections approaching in November, Biden called on US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to “consider increasing the tariffs” imposed on some Chinese steel and aluminum imports, which currently average 7.5 percent, “three times.”
Biden said on Wednesday, “No trade war,” in statements to reporters during an election tour in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in response to a question about whether he feared that increasing tariffs would lead to a confrontation with the second largest economy in the world.
The Democratic president is seeking to convince voters that he is the best ally of workers and unions. In this context, he visited the headquarters of the Mining Industries Workers Union, after he finally received their support after confronting the Japanese company “Nippon Steel”’s acquisition of the giant American steel group, US Steel.
When announcing its support for Biden, the union criticized his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, who is also seeking to win the votes of the working class and presents himself as a defender of reviving the American manufacturing industry, promising to increase customs duties by a large percentage if he is elected.
Investigation against China
Meanwhile, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation into “China’s unfair practices in the areas of shipbuilding, maritime transport and logistics activities.”
The US Trade Representative’s Office will undertake the investigation, which comes in response to a request from a number of union bodies in this sector that denounce Chinese policies that are “more aggressive and intrusive than any other country.”
For its part, Beijing said on Wednesday that it strongly opposes the US investigation into China’s trade practices in the shipbuilding, navigation and logistics sectors, noting that it is “full of false accusations.”
A statement issued by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that the US investigation “is full of false accusations, misinterprets normal trade and investment activities as harming US national security and corporate interests, and blames China for its (US) industrial problems.”
The White House announcements come against the backdrop of a sharp rivalry with China, despite the resumption of dialogue between the world’s two leading economic powers, and the measures taken to reduce the United States’ dependence on Chinese industries.
The Biden administration says it has doubled investments in new factories in the United States since it took power in January 2021, also confirming the creation of about 80,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector.
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