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BNP to make moves to keep AL isolated

Rezaul Karim
The government policymakers are planning ways to keep the smaller political parties away from forging an alliance with lite Awami League trying to topple the coalition government from office, highly placed sources said.
However, tire ruling coalition leader BNP thinks AL’s forming an alliance with the smaller parties ahead of the general elections may not hit the ruling alliance as tire smaller political parties do not have a vo te bank as such.
Still, tire BNP bigwigs believe a street movement by a united opposition may damage tire government image and arc desperate to resist any move to float an alliance with tire Awami League, the sources added.
Several BNP policymakers are in constant contact with the leaders of Left-leaning political parties like Workers Party, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal and Gono Forum.
They are also in touch with the top leaders and parliament members of deposed president HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party.
Several top leaders and minis-
ters, who had once pursued Left politics, have continued contact at personal level with the heads and policymakers of the Left parties, BNP insiders said.
Similar talks are also on with other smaller rightwing political parties and BNP leaders, who had once belonged to the Right.
Meanwhile, efforts are underway to further split the Ershad-led Jatiya Party, BNP sources said. They said there are two camps within the JP — one pro-BNP and tire other pro-AL. Discussions aimed to keep the JP away from the AL have taken place at different levels of the party, they added.
-The home ministry has instructed thi intelligence agencies to review the files on all pending cases against Ershad and the secret agencies have mounted watch on the deposed president.
Tire BNP is mulling over wooing other smaller parties having representation in parliament like Anwar Hossain Manju of Jatiya Party (JP-Manju) and Quader Siddiqui of Krishak Sramik Janata League, sources said.
Former prime minister and JP leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed, who returned home yesterday, is likely to be tasked with drawing together the pro-BNP leaders within the in a bid to reduce the influence of Ershad in his party.
They said the government is convinced that chances of AL's tying up with the left-leaning political parties are slim as none of them has responded positively to its call for a united platform to launch the "oust-govt movement".
A BNP policymaker said on condition of anonymity that they would not do anything if the AL forms an electoral alliance with the smaller parties, excepting Ershad-led Jatiya Party, ahead of the national elections.
"I am sure that the Awami League would not form an electoral alliance ahead of next polls considering its bitter experience in the 1991 elections when the party lost a good number of seats given to the alliance leaders," he said.