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Election-Time Govt

BNP to unveil three models

Rashidul Hasan
The BNP has drafted three models of a polls-time government and will soon unveil those with a view to resolving the ongoing political crisis over the holding of a free and fair general election.
All the three models propose picking a neutral and non-partisan eminent citizen for the post of chief adviser of the interim government, highly placed sources in the
main opposition party told The Daily Star yesterday.
The ruling Awami League and the BNP will choose the chief adviser on consensus and s/he will be elected to parliament through a by-election in a constituency.
He/she will lead a body of 10 technocrat advisers. About nominating the advisers, the three models suggest three options.
One option is that the AL and the BNP
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will select five neutral and non-partisan dignitaries each for appointment as advisers.
Another proposal says the AL will nominate five of its advisory council members and BNP chief Khaleda Zia will nominate five of her advisers to be appointed advisers.
The other model suggests picking five ministers from the present cabinet led by Sheikh Hasina and another five from Khaleda Zia's past cabinet to be made advisers of the interim government.
A BNP source said the party would demand three portfolios in the polls-time government - home, local government and rural development, and foreign affairs - for its nominated advisers.
Asked, acting BNP secre-tary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir confirmed the party's move to come up with the models of an interim
government.
"We will present before the nation this month two or three proposals on the formation of an electiontime interim government. Efforts are underway to this effect," Fakhrul said yesterday.
He also said his party is going to make the proposals public in response to repeated calls from the government and the AL to put forward ideas, if it has any, on the formation of a polls-time government.
Since the scrapping of the caretaker system in June 2011, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her colleagues in the cabinet and the ruling party have been urging the BNP to place its proposals regarding an interim administration.
But the main opposition party refused to do so, saying its proposal would be rejected since the ruling party has an
overwhelming majority in parliament.
Recently, the prime minister announced that the next general election would be held any day between October 27 and January 24 without dissolving the present parliament and the cabinet.
The BNP bitterly criticised the announcement and vowed to resist any election as per the premier's announcement.
This only worsened the political impasse centring on the next election, triggering fears of unrest in the coming days.
Meanwhile, efforts by the international community, especially the UN chief, to resolve the impasse have raised hopes of a solution to die crisis.
Against this backdrop, the BNP appears to have changed its stance and opted for drawing up proposals on a polls-
time government.
The party, however, will not place the proposals in parliament. Instead, it will announce them through a press conference, a BNP source said.
Besides, on an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, a two-member BNP delegation is supposed to meet him in the middle of this month.
On August 23, the UN chief called Hasina and Khaleda, urging them to sit for talks to resolve the political standoff.
He asked Khaleda to send two of her party leaders to meet him during the UN General Assembly session in New York.
Asked if the BNP team would place the three models to the LIN chief when it met him, Fakhrul said the party policymakers would decide on this issue after consulting the chairperson.