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Talks with Govt Today

BNB Jamaat to press for deferring UZ polls, lifting emergency

Staff Correspondent
BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami will press hard for lifting of the state of emergency and deferral of the upazila election at talks with the caretaker government today.
The parties will raise some other issues from a common standpoint, said sources close to the BNP-led four-party alliance.
Besides calling for a level playing field in the December 18 polls, they will oppose some provisions of the revised Representation of the PeopleOrder (RPO). they added.
The parties will keep on pushing for the government to cancel redemarcation of the constituencies.
Talking to The Daily Star, BNP leaders said as their Chairperson
Khaleda Zia has yet to register as voter, they will demand scrapping of the provision that says a nonvoter shall not be allowed to contest polls.
The dialogue with BNP is scheduled to start at 11:00am and that with Jamaat at 3:00pm. The Chief Adviser's Office is all ready to host the crucial talks.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid will lead their delegations.
However, sources in the four-party alliance said Ali Ahsan M Mojahid may not participate in the talks as the court issued arrest warrant against him in the FROM PAGE 1
Barapukuria graft case.
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will be assisted by five advisers -Hossain Zillur Rahman, AFM Hassan ArifT, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Anwarul Iqbal and GhulamQuader.
Hossain Zillur yesterday told reporters that they will keep an open mind in the discussions.
Party leaders said BNP and Jamaat have already drawn up some common proposals to make in the dialogue.
They also said they will seek to strike a hard bargain. Especially, they will try not to budge on their demands for immediate withdrawal of the state of emergency and deferral of the upazila polls.
They want the government to do those to remove uncertainty over the December 18 election.
"We think emergency should be lifted without delay, and constituency delimitation can wait till the next election [10th parliamentary polls). I hope the government will see the logic of our arguments," Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman told The Daily Star. ,
BNP and its allies have lately confined themselves to five demands. These include lifting of the state of emergency immediately, cancellation of the RPO (Amendment) Ordinance 2008, relaxed registration provisions, the election with previous parliamentary boundaries intact, and release of all political leaders and withdrawal of cases against them.
Thnbir Ahmed Siddiky, a standing committee member, who heads the sub-committee assigned to prepare the dialogue agenda, said a 10-member delegation will join today's dialogue.
“The government will accept our five-point demand if it is really sincere in its efforts to hold a free and fair election," he told reporters at a park in Gulshan.
Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman told The Daily Star that they and BNP will place uniform proposals. “We will stick to our five-point demand.”
Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) adviser Anwarul Iqbal yesterday said he is hopeful there would be a positive outcome of today's dialogue.
He said this while talking to reporters at the Osmani Memorial auditorium.
Replying to a query, he said they have no agenda set for the dialogue.
The government side will seek to work out problems, if there is any, through talks, he added.
Iqbal described the BNP and Jamaat move to amend their constitutions for registration as positive.