Bangladesh's main opposition Awami League Sunday protested against the government's "mass arrest" of the party's leaders and workers, terming it as "a reflection of undemocratic mindset" of the four-party alliance government.

Abdul Mannan, organizing secretary of Awami League told Xinhua by telephone Sunday that the government has arrested 2,200 leaders and workers of the party during the last four days ahead of the party's Oct. 3 grand rally in the capital to intensify the opposition's "oust-government movement".

The opposition dubbed the mass arrests by security forces and para-military the Bangladesh Rifles as "interference" in other's opinion expressed through democratic and constitutional ways which"might lead the nation towards conflict and violence".

Police, however, termed the mass arrests as part of their regular anti-crime crackdown across the country.

The Awami League has launched the oust-government movement with13 other like-minded opposition parties after the grenade attack on the Awami League's rally in the capital on Aug. 21 that killed 20 people and injured hundreds.

The party will announce the next course of action of the ongoing oust-government movement, Abdul Mannan said.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia cautioned her partydeputies that she had documents that the opposition parties are conspiring to unseat her elected government.

The prime minister asked her party members to undo the conspiracy.

Source: Xinhua