& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Boycott of JS budget session

BNP indecision, Opposition rigidity prolong impasse

By Staff Correspondent
Indecision by the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the apparent rigid fty of the Opposition are delay Ing negotiations to break the Impasse created by the boycott of the current session of par Itament.
Despite earlier Indications that the BNP was willing to accept some of the Opposition demands there had been no move by It since the agreed meeting of June 21 was aborted.
Authoritative sources said that the BNP high command was yet to decide on the ex-
tent of compromise with the Opposition
Meanwhile, leaders of the A warn! League (AL), Five Partv Alliance. Progressive Demo cratic Front (PDF), Ganatantrlk Bfplobl Jote, Ganatantrl Party and Nirmul Committee met in a meeting at the Awaml League central office to discuss the strategies for the proposed march on parliament June 30
The meeting observed that there was no room for com promise on the four-point demand especially on the trial of Golam Azam
atrocities at the Jatfya Press Club on June 21. the meeting demanded punishment for the persons responsible.
It also resolved that the government accept • the demands of the striking transport workers considering the sufferings to the commonman due to the strike and give up the techniques of applying force orf the strikers.
All the prominent members of the alliance addressed the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka metropolitan unit of Ekatturer Ghatak-Dalal Nfrmu! Committee will attend the programme, said a press release.
Khalcquzzaman Bhuiyan, convenor of his faction of BSD in a statement yesterday called upon the people to make the June 30 march a success. He also urged his party workers to take all-out preparations aimed at rqaking the programme a success and thus Intensify the movement . for demand of Golam Azam's trial.
The Opposition four point demands include trial of Golam Azam under International Crimes Act, 1973, dropping of charges against the 24 sponsors of Gana Adalat, ensuring due honour to the leader of the Opposition in parliament, and extending democratic behaviour to the opposition political parties.
The Opposition had informal meetings with leaders of the BNP in one of the Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings held yesterday.
A senior leader of BNP, preferring anonymity, told The Daily Star that a section of the party leaders was showing Increasing Intransigence in negotiating with the Opposition.
They, according to the leader, felt that they could outwit the Opposition once the budget was passed by June 30, in the absence of Opposition. But. the other section felt the party would be deprived of a political victory over the Opposition for 'formulating a positive budget’ if it was passed without the Opposition in parliament.
An Influential leader of the AL. also an MP. however, fell that three of the four demands could easily be met by the ruling party. About the trial of Golam Azam, he observed, the government could bail itself out of the crisis by asserting its own stand on the issue taken in parliament earlier. This would also allow the Opposition to extend the olive branch to the government, he observed.
The ruling party decision on Golam Azam said that the issue should be settled in a court of law.