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AL to join JS if 15-pt met

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The main opposition Awami League (AL) will join the House if the government meets its 15-point charter of demands, announced by the party chief Sheikh Hasina from Saturday's rally, said Deputy Leader of the Opposition Abdul Hamid yesterday.
Hamid's statement to newspersons came ahead of the next session of the Jatiya Sangsad, beginning on January 18.
Hamid referred to AL's still-unmet three-point demand earlier put forward to the government as a precondition for its comeback to the Jatiya Sangsad that the party has been boycotting since the budget session in July 2003.
However, the frontline AL leader hinted at a hard line the AL may take in future and said: "The situation has changed for the worse with the framing of Awami League leaders, including lawmakers, and workers in false cases."
On the ruling BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan's recent offer for the speaker-mediated or direct talks to resolve parliamentary standoff, Hamid said, "Discussions will not be necessary, if the ruling party meets our demands."
He questioned Bhuiyan's authority on meeting the AL demands but said he would make him aware of AL's position on the Jatiya Sangsad boycott.
The AL presidium member, Suranjit Sengupta, echoed his voice.
"We have seen the coalition's two and a half years in office, but no important issues like crime, rape, killing and law and order downslide were discussed in parliament," Suranjit said.
Dubbing BNP's election office, Hawa Bhaban, as a symbol of cor-
ruption, Suranjit said the government would have to disband such centres to make parliament functional.
The AL lawmakers walked out of the eighth session of the eighth parliament, over the switching-off of the leader of the opposition's microphone by Deputy Speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui.
The ninth and 10th sessions of the House also went through AL's boycott.
The AL demanded an apology from Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for declaring a non-MP BNP newcomer, Shah Mohammed Abu Zafar, a de facto lawmaker in Faridpur.
It also demanded apologies from Speaker Jamir Uddin Sircar for his comment that parliament runs smoothly without the opposition and from State Minister for Public Works Alamgir Kabir for using derogatory words against Hasina in the House.