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BNP MPs angry over Press Club incident, blame Home Minister

Move to get opposition back in Parliament

By Special Correspondent
The government has launched a new offensive to bring back the Opposition to Parliament.
Three senior leaders of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), including two sc nior ministers have been as signed to negotiate with the Opposition, according to authoritative sources.
The party, according to
sources, was finding It difficult-to cope with what it termed the continuously shifting po sition of the Opposition on the four-point dehiand put earlier '
The four-points include trial of Jamaat chief Golam Azam under International Crimes Act of 1973. dropping of charges against the 24 sponsors of Oana Adalat'. ensuring due honour to the
Leader of the Opposition In Parliament and extending democratic behaviour to the opposition political parties.
Earlier, according to sources, the government Indi cated that II was ready to drop charges against the sponsors ol Oana Adalat and expressed its readiness to Iron out differ ences on the Issue of the attl tude towards the Opposition
On the basis of these understandings two meetings, one between Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Jahanara imam and the other between leaders of Treasury Bench and Opposition, were agreed for Sunday evening. But the police action against the Journalists the same evening torpedoed the move
Meanwhile, the police action against the journalists has angered many of the BNP leaders including a good number of MPs, according to sources Some of them have termed it a move ’to tarnish the image of the government' and some have blamed the Home Minister.
Sources further said, while the government was agreeable to dropping charges against the sponsors of Gana Adalat. the Awami League (AL) has tagged the issue of passage of the Indemnity (Repeal) Bill to the negotiations.
The AL wants a definite commitment on the issue but the government negotiators feel that the Bill should first be settled in the Committee meeting.
Sources claimed that the Issue of the Bill had been raised afresh to 'make the situation more complicated.' They said, it was the AL that always asked to defer the Bill in the committee meetings.
A section of BNP leaders, according to sources, felt that the party had been caught offguard by the alliance of AL and Jatiya Party (JP) in boycotting the session of Parliament.
One of the negotiators told this correspondent that they had been able to establish meaningful contacts' with the opposition yesterday and expressed the hope that situation would change by the weekend.