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No hope of early resumption of AL-BNP talks

By Nurul Kabir
The dialogue between the ruling Awami League and the . Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has stopped, leaving little hope for a sound working relation between the two feuding political camps in the near future.
The dialogue began before the Jatiya Sangsad went into its last session on November 2 and the process ended as the session was prorogued on the 16th.
The BNP has been abstaining from attending Sangsad proceedings since August to
press a set of demands that include lifting of ban on street rallies in the city, stoppage of alleged repression on political opponents, disclosing contents of the draft accord to be signed with leaders of the tribal people in Chittagong Hill Tracts and so on. BNP refused to return to the House during the last session as the dialogue failed to forge a consensus.
"The ruling party has not contacted us for talks after the prorogation of parliament sesslon." said Chief Whip of the Opposition in the House Khan-daker Delwar Hossain Friday night. "With the ruling party visibly reluctant to sort out problems through dialogue, we are now compelled to get our demands Implemented through street agitation.'
The chief negotiator on the government side. Telecommunications Minister and AL stalwart Mohammad Nasim, admitted Wednesday night that he had not contacted BNP after the JS session ended. "We had offered the Opposition whatever we could afford to, but they did not respond positively. There is nothing more to do on our part regarding a dialogue."
The ruling party offered to accommodate all the 113 BNP legislators in the parliamentary standing bodies on ministries. promised to place the CHT accord in parliament after it is signed and assured that some of the cases against the Opposition leaders and activists would be withdrawn.
Meanwhile, a top ranking leader close to the Prime Minister said, on condition of
anonymity, that the dialogue was likely to resume before the next session of the Sang sad, sometime in the last week of next month.
AL and BNP. which have strained relations, most of the time, traditionally go for dialogue only a few days before parliament meets.
When his attention was drawn to the tradition, the Telecommunications Minister quipped: “If it so happens, we have inherited the practice from the BNP government headed by Begum Khaleda Zia."
Asked whether Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to take any initiative to ease the relation with the Opposition, Nasim said that he end not see any such possibility.
Sheikh Hasina and Leader of the Opposition in the Sangsad Begum Khaleda Zia seldom talk to each other. Since Hasina took over as Prime Minister 18 months ago. the two leaders never exchanged views on any issue — social, political or economic. During the period, they met only twice, at the two annual functions on the occasion of Armed Forces Day.