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Policy summit draws criticism

Staff Correspondent
leaders of major political parties including BNP, Jatiya Party (JP), Jamaat-e-Islami, Workers Party of Bangladesh and Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday rejected thegovernment-proposed policy summit.
Awami League (AL) welcomed the move but cast doubt on the success of the summit likely to be held only a month before the
December national polls.
AL acting President Zillur Rahman said his party might boycott the summit if Jamaat attends it. The AL leader was talking to reporters after a meeting with former AL lawmaker Ali Reza Raju at hisGulshan home in the capital.
He said the state of emergency is still enforced to conceal the misdeeds of the caretaker government. The AL leader asked the government to lift the emergency immediately.
AL Presidium member Tofail Ahmed, however, termed the idea of policy summit impractical. The government should not do any more experiments as the national election is scheduled for December, he said.
An elected government should decide how the country would be run after the election, Tofail told The Daily Star.
Commerce and Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman Wednesday said the government would organise a policy summit in November with the country's top political leaders on three key issues -investment growth, administrative reforms and education.
Terming the government decision impractical, leaders of other parties said the only job of the caretaker government at present is to hold the national election. An elected government should decide on the summit issue, they said.
MK z\nwar, BNP vice-president, told The Daily Star last night that the government should not go for any further "adventures".
"It is the elected party or the alliance who will determine how the country will run," Anwar said, adding that every party has their own policies on how they will run the country once they assume power.
JP acting Chairman Anisul Islam Mahmud said, "Of course there could be a discussion among political parties but there is no environment to hold such summit ahead of the parliamentary polls."
"The parliament should decide on the matter in parliament through discussions, not the caretaker government," he toldThe DailyStar.
Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon said the caretaker government is not supposed to organise this kind of summit
"Every day they are talking about new ideas and plans which are beyond their jurisdiction and the policy summit is their latest idea," he said.
Talking to The Daily Star CPB President Manjurul Ahsan Khan termed the government's plan a new conspiracy to stay in power for longer.
JP (Manju) Secretary General Sheikh Shahidul Islam in a statement termed the government plan irrational and asked the government to concentrate on holding a free, fair and credible national election.
Jamaat Senior Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Qamaruzzaman said, "The caretaker government is not in a position to carry the load of organising this kind of summit. Even the agenda of the policy summit is not clear."
He, however, said they are not against the holding of this kind of summit.
Meanwhile, AL acting President Zillur Rahman welcomed the initiatives of barrister Rafique-ul-Huq. who defended former premiers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia in court, to persuade the two leaders to sit together.
lire final decision on the matter would be made after Hasina's return from the US, he said