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BNP likely to join next JS session

Staff Correspondent
As parliament goes into the New Year session on January 27, MPs from the BNP-led opposition may return to the House, ending almost a year-long boycott to raise their voice on a number of issues of national importance.
President Zillur Rahman, who convened the session yesterday on the advice of the prime minister, will address the House at the beginning of its session.
"We are actively thinking of participating in the House proceedings. We will sit soon to take a
formal decision in this regard," Moudud Ahmed, a member of the national standing committee of BNR told The Daily Star yesterday.
The opposition lawmakers will demand discussions on a number of issues including law and order, pervasive corruption, price hike of essentials, share market crash, Padma bridge scam and foreign policy, he said.
"We will also speak for the opposition's core demand for installation of a nonpartisan election-time government," Moudud added.
Even if the Speaker does not accept any of the opposition MPs' motions for discussion, they will have uninterrupted time to speak and criticise the government by participating on the thanksgiving motion on the president's address.
The opposition MPs may need joining the House proceedings at least for a day during the upcoming session to avert the risk of losing membership on grounds of absence.
They last joined the House sitting on March 20 last year and started another round of parliament boycott.
Sources in the parliament secretariat said the opposition lawmakers belonging to BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Jatiya Party have been absent from parliament proceedings for 50 consecutive sittings.
If the New Year session has 40 more sittings, the opposition MPs including Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia will lose membership for absence from the House for 90 consecutive sittings.
And the treasury bench, if it wants, can continue the session for more than 40 sittings as the New Year session usually witnesses more than 30 sittings on an average, parliament officials mentioned.
"BNP was thinking of joining the New year session a few days back. But some recent political developments complicated the situation. So, now I am not sure if the opposition MPs will effectively participate in the House proceedings," a BNP policymaker said, wishing anonymity.
Earlier, keeping off the House for around a Year, Khaleda Zia and other opposition MPs joined its sitting on March 18 last year and
participated in the thanksgiving motion on the president's address.
On March 20, Khaleda Zia, also BNP chief, spoke for one hour and 53 minutes, and urged the government to resolve the crisis developing over the caretaker governmentissue.
The opposition MPs then started boycotting the House from its next sitting on March 29.
The opposition lawmakers, who had joined the inaugural sitting of the present parliament, opted for boycotting the House in phases.
First, they started keeping away from the House proceedings in June 2009 and continued the boycott till February2010,
They returned to parliament on February 10, 2010, following absence from 64 consecutive sittings.
A fresh boycott began in June 2010 and continued until March 16,2011. By that time the opposition lawmakers were away from the House for 74 consecutive sittings. Then they stormed out of parliament on March 24, 2011 and returned on March 18, last year, ending their boycott of 77 sittings.