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JS session begins today, AL to boycott

Staff Correspondent
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) goes into its 19th session today with the main opposition refraining from attending it before its November 22 grand rally, while the ruling coalition is also planning how to counter the opposition's agitation.
The main opposition Awami League (AL), which has been boycotting the House since last year, continues its boycott, preparing for the showdown on November 22, where it is likely to issue an ultimatum to the government to realise its demands for electoral reforms.
“There is no scope of joining the session before holding our grand rally...We can discuss the issue of joining parliament after the rally,” Deputy Leader of the Opposition Abdul Hamid told The Daily Star.
Meanwhile, the ruling BNP is also planning to hold a grand rally early next month, instead of confining its activities inside the parliament, declaring a set of programmes.
The BNP-led ruling alliance, which has rejected the opposition's demands for reforms in the caretaker government system and the Election Commission before the next parliamentary polls, will decide its strategy, observing the outcome of the opposition's November 22 rally, sources in the ruling parties said.
The current JS session beginning in the afternoon today will be a short one as it sits only to meet the constitutional obligation so that the gap between two JS sessions does not exceed 60 days.
The Business Advisory Committee will sit prior to the session to decide the duration of the session.
Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar last week hinted that the 19th session will not have more than 10 workdays.
If the session witnesses 18 workdays, the political scenario will take a dramatic turn, observing whether the AL attends the session to save the membership of its chief Sheikh Hasina, which will be vacated as she did not attend parliamentary sessions for the last 72 consecutive days.
According to the constitution, a lawmaker will lose his/her membership if s/he remains absent from parliamentary sessions for 90 consecutive days.
However, the AL policymakers are not worried about it at the moment. They are rather busy to make the grand rally a success, making hectic campaigns in the districts around the capital and urging people to join the rally.
Meanwhile, many AL lawmakers have submitted a number of notices to the parliament secretariat, demanding discussions on different important issues, including the August 21 grenade attack, the brutal killings of two judges, Monga and the law and order situation.
The lawmakers of the second largest opposition party in parliament, Jatiya Party (JP), have also submitted notices, demanding discussions on different issues.
“But I am sure that the ruling party will not hold any discussion on any burning issue,” JP lawmaker GM Quader, who has submitted several notices for discussion, told The Daily Star yesterday.
Besides the regular questionanswer session, the House is expected to pass a number of bills at this session.