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AL awaits Hasina's return to decide on joining JS

REAZ AHMAD
Main opposition Awami League will decide on crucial issues like joining the parliament, responding to government's dialogue offer and taking disciplinary actions against party renegades once party President Sheikh Hasina returns home.
Now on the last leg of her monthlong private tour to the USA and UK, Hasina is scheduled to return home on May 23, party sources said. She would then chair two important meetings at the end of the month -one of the AL Central Working Committee (ALCWC) and the other of the AL Parliamentary Party (ALPP).
These forums would make a final decision on whether the party would join the budget session of the parliament billed for June 4.
The Awami League has stayed
off parliament proceedings for 56 days and should it abstain from the parliament for 34 more days the 58 seats of the AL MPs will fall vacant.
Coming out from an earlier meeting of ALCWC, held on May 7, acting AL President Abdus Samad Azad had said to newsmen, "We'll make a final decision in this regard (joining the parliament) upon the return of the leader (Sheikh Hasina)."
Meanwhile, as Hasina is touring the USA and UK to raise funds to help people back home who have been tortured and repressed allegedly by the seven-month old government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, her party received another dialogue offer from the government early this week.
BNP Secretary General and LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan made the offer for dialogue
when he phoned Deputy Leader of the Opposition Abdul Hamid on May 12. Hamid told newsmen later that the AL decision on any talks with the government would be made after Hasina's return home.
Following the passage of the repeal bill on display and preservation of Bangabandhu's portrait in public offices, the AL had decided in principle to resign from the parliament.
But, most AL lawmakers while submitting their resignation letters parliament to the party chief viewed that the party should reconsider the decision.
Hasina later told newsmen that her party lawmakers would go to the parliament at least for a day to put on record the 'repression' let loose by the government.
Now that the government is considering taking the long-drawn debate on gas export issue to the House, and the country's development partners are in favour of the presence of all parties in the parliament, the decision of main opposition party is very important, observers noted.
Besides, Hasina would have to decide on party renegades too, sources said pointing to the fact that it has been four months since over 500 party men including seven central leaders were served with show-cause notices for allegedly acting against the party interest in the last parliamentary polls.
AL General Secretary Zillur Rahman was supposed to place a report on the party men in question to the central working committee in its last meeting, but it has been deferred a couple of times.