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Fresh Talks Initiative

AL, BNP ask each other

Staff Correspondent
The ruling Awami League and the main opposition BNP yesterday asked each other to take a fresh initiative for dialogue between the chiefs of the two parties over a polistime government for holding the next general election in a free and fair manner.
The AL-led 14-party alliance at a meeting urged BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia to take the initiative this time for talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also AL president.
But BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said since his party was not hosting the dialogue, it is the duty of the government side to take the initiative.
Addressing a post-hartal press conference at BNP's Nayapaltan central office, Fakhrul also said disclosure of the conversation between the PM and the opposition leader to the media was a departure from "political decency" and was "politically motivated.” He blamed the government for this.
At yesterday's meeting at the AL president's political office at Dhanmondi, 14-party leaders urged the law enforcement agencies to contain hartal-related violence across the country with an iron hand to ensure safety and security of people.
"You [Khaleda] and your party must come forward to have a dialogue,” AL Presidium Member and 14-party coordinator Mohammad Nasim said after the meeting with Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal General Secretary Sharif Nurul Ambia in the chair.
Nasim criticised Khaleda for turning down Hasina's invitation for dialogue on October 28 on grounds of hartal.
He blamed the BNP-led 18-party combine for the killings and violence during its 60-hour hartal and urged the opposition leader not to "unleash further violence and chaos".
The 14-party decided to exchange views with different professional and womens' bodies on November 6 and 7 and hold countrywide rallies on November 1 to protest the "killings, arson, bomb attacks and vandalism by the BNP-Jamaat alliance".
At his press briefing Fakhrul alleged that the government had no interest in holding dialogue and it was just staging a drama in the name of dialogue to put all blame on the opposition.
He also accused the government of “double standard” regarding talks with the opposition.
"The government has invited the opposition for dialogue. But at the same time it is harassing opposition leaders by sending police to their houses. Police forces are also involved in killing opposition leaders," he said.
Fakhrul warned that the opposition leaders and activists would give a fitting response if attacks on the leader's houses continued.