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Dy speaker, AL both seem losing heart

Shakhawa tLiton
Deputy Speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui will not answer Deputy Leader of the Opposition Abdul Hamid's June 29 letter but may invite the Awami League by phone to a dialogue to resolve parliamentary stand-off.
Siddiqui's apparent loss of interest in formal letter exchanges came, as the main opposition party accused him of not running the parliament session in line with Ilie Rules of Procedure.
"Rather than writing a letter, I will try to talk to the deputy leader of the opposition by phone tomorrow (Saturday)." Siddiqui told The Daily Star yesterday. "What's the use writing a letter again?”
The deputy speaker found inappropriate the way the opposition was making comments against his per formance in running the House.
"Abdul Hamid will feel ashamed, ifhe recounts how he had run parliament earlier."
The stalemale that stemmed from AL’s Indefinite boycott of the House over a state minister's derogatory remarks against AL President Sheikh Hasina got a new edge with the AL lawmakers' claim dial the Chair was allowing treasury benchers to launch invective against rhe opposition.
Tire AL has little confidence in the deputy speaker's initiative to ease the stand-off. "The deputy speaker is still provoking tire ruling party lawmakers to make derogatory remarks
against the AL and Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina,'' said Hamid. "He (Siddiqui) did not expunge the invective cither. So how can we trust him?"
As part of his efforts to defuse the crisis, the deputy speaker sent I lamid a letter on June 28, inviting him to a dialogue with BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and Chief Whip Khandakar Delwar Hossain.
Hamid wrote back on June 29, asking the deputy speaker to take effective steps to resolve the crisis.
I lamid said in his letter that State Minister for Housing Alamgir Kabir's invective against Hasina led lire AL to boycott the House.
On July 2, Siddiqui told The Dally Star that he would respond to Hamid's letter and invite the AL to a dialogue. On July 6, he also told newsmen that he would send the letter in a couple of days. But no letter was sent to Hamid until yesterday.
The AL took a hard line on its boycott since June 26 with a vow that its lawmakers would not join the House unless their three-point demand was met.
The demands are expunction of the state minister's derogatory remarks, an apology from him and the Chair's running sessions in line with the Rules of Procedure.
The situation seems to have bogged down, as the AL on Thursday had taken a decision of not joining the current Jatiya Sangsad session.
The parliament session resumed on July 5 after the passage of the budget on June 30. Although the close of the session is slated for July 15, itmightbe extended further.