Dhaka, Nov. 1 -- Labour Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury has accused a group of conspiring to destabilise the country before December, as garment workers' protests spread.

He spoke on Sunday night after meeting Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Secretariat.

"Discussions focused on [Sunday's] developments. You know that a group is conspiring ahead of December and plotting to destabilise the government," he said.

He alleged that people outside the labour movement were conspiring with different organisations, adding that the government would respond politically.

The prime minister called the emergency meeting after garment workers demanding a Tk 30,000 minimum wage took to the streets in Mirpur, Gazipur and elsewhere, clashing with pol...