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AL walks out as JS body won't slate attack on Hasina

SHAKHAWAT LITON
Awami League (AL) lawmakers yesterday walked out of a parliamentary committee meeting as the ruling party refused to adopt a condolence and a censure motion on Saturday's grenade attack on the main opposition's rally in Dhaka.
After the stormy walkout, the House Committee allocated 184 Nam (Non-alignment Movement) flats proportionately among political parities having representation in the current Jatiya Sangsad.
The AL's proposals for condolence and censure motions on the attacks that killed 18 people and injured over
200 others on Bangabandhu Avenue sparked a half-hour heated debate at the meeting as the ruling party members and whips opposed the proposals.
Ruling BNP Whip Ashraf Hossain said the rules of procedure did not allow such motions.
Chief Whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain, chairman of the committee, supported his deputy, saying, "I personally condemn the attack, but cannot allow adoption of such motions."
Speaking for adoption of the proposals, Opposition Chief Whip Abdus Shahid said lives of opposition lawmakers including the
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Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina were under threat.
He said the committee should discuss and adopt the proposals on the barbaric attack that killed opposition leaders and activists and plunged the whole nation into an environment of horror.
AL lawmaker Shahjahan Khan moved the proposals at the beginning of the meeting of the committee that advises the government on residential accommodation of lawmakers and their food, medical aid and other amenities at MP hostels.
Jatiya Party (Ershad) lawmaker Tajul Islam Chowdhury also demanded adoption of the proposals to voice anger and hatred at the heinous attack.
After the walkout, the committee allocated 122 of the flats to the key ruling party BNP, 10 to ruling coalition partner Jamat-e-Islami, 37 to the AL and nine to the Jatiya Party.
Talking to reporters after the walkout, Shahid said the ruling party did not agree to adopt the censure motion to hide its failure to rein in widespread crimes across Bangladesh.
Opposition Whip Mirza Azam said the ruling party cited the rules of procedure as a mere excuse.
A number of parliamentary committees adopted condolence motions in the wake of recent launch capsizes and deaths of Bangladesh peacekeepers in a plane crash in Benin.