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BNP to roll out counter formula

Views PM's proposal as a 'trick to confuse people'

Rashidul Hasan
The BNP considers the prime minister's proposal on the polls-time government a "trick to confuse people", and it will place a counter proposal within two or three days, said senior leaders of the main opposition party.
The party has also decided to stage an indefinite Dhaka siege programme if it is not allowed to hold a rally in the capital on October 25.
The decisions were made at the BNP standing committee meeting chaired by Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office last night, according to two senior leaders.
Khaleda will today sit with the leaders of the 18-party alliance to discuss the next course of action as well as the PM's proposal for an all-party polls-time government.
Neither the BNP acting secretary general nor any standing committee member who attended the meeting would comment on record about the party's stance on the PM's Friday address.
Wishing anonymity, a senior leader said they view the PM's proposal as a "trick to confuse people", particularly when the opposition is set to wage the final round of movement for the restoration of the caretaker government system.
"Besides, according to our constitution, there is no scope for forming an allparty government," he added.
Another standing committee member told this correspondent over the phone that at the meeting they observed there was nothing new in the PM's speech.
And, the proposal won't resolve the ongoing political crisis over holding a free and fair parliamentary election, he added.
The BNP leader said within two or three days they would place a proposal for a non-party caretaker government to conduct the polls.
According to the proposal, the chief of the election-time government must be a neutral person but the
interim ministers could be politicians picked from two sides, the leader added.
On Friday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina proposed forming an allparty polls-time government and urged the BNP to nominate its MPs for inclusion in the interim cabinet.
Hasina, however, did not specify the size of the cabinet and its scope of work or who would head the cabinet. It is also not clear from her speech when the interim cabinet would be formed.