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All-party actually four-party govt

SHAKHAWAT L1TON and PARTHA PRATIM BHATTACHARJEE
Formation of an all-party election-time government, as proposed by the prime minister, will not be possible at any rate as four of the eight parties having representation in parliament have rejected the offer.
The four parties - BNP, Jamaat-e-lslami, Bangladesh Jatiya Party and Liberal Democratic Party - of the 18-party opposition alliance have been demanding a non-party government for overseeing the general election.
Yesterday, the main opposition party made it clear once again that it would neither join the all-party administration nor take part in an election under such a government.
In such a situation, Sheikh Hasina will have to find MPs from her own party, the Awami League, and three other components of the AL-led alliance - Jatiya Party, Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal - to form a new cabinet.
In the December 29, 2008 general election, 38 registered political
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parties took part. Of them, only the eight above-mentioned political parties managed to have representation in parliament, according to the Election Commission.
Headed by Hasina, the current cabinet has representation of the AL, Jatiya Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.
Dilip Barua, chief of Samyabadi Dal, a component of the AL-led alliance, was made technocrat minister on January 6, 2009, the day the cabinet was formed.
Later, Workers Party was offered to join the cabinet, but it refused to do so amid the changed political situation.
Formation of the all-party polls-time administration may, however, face further blow if Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad prevents his party men from joining the government at the last moment, according to political analysts.
Talking to The Daily Star, some leaders of the AL, BNP and Jatiya Party echoed the same view recently.
As they put it, Ershad, a former military dictator, has always been an unpredictable man. Over the last one year or so, he has been publicly speaking of quitting the AL alliance, and yet he has not quit. But notably, his party is not with the AL to counter the 18-party's street agitation.
Despite pressure from within the party, they added, Ershad could not leave the ruling alliance, fearing consequences as there are still several cases pending against him. But in the coming days, if the situation allows, he may quit the alliance and refuse to join the all-party government.
Former adviser to a caretaker government M Hafizuddin Khan and eminent jurist Shahdeen Malik said if all the parties having representation in parliament do not join the new cabinet, it cannot be called an all-party government.
But regardless of the prevailing situation, the prime minister is determined to go ahead with her plan to form an "all-party" polls-time government, sources close to Hasina said.
Headed by Hasina, the cabinet may have 20-22 members, most of them likely to be freshers, the sources said, adding that the current cabinet members would resign before the formation of the new cabinet.
AL insiders, however, said they would keep urging the main opposition party to nominate its MPs for the new cabinet, which will start functioning after the Election Commission announces the polls schedule in the middle of this month.
But what if the BNP and Jamaat boycott the polls?
AL Presidium Member Kazi Zafarullah told The Daily Star recently that election would then be held without them, as the polls must be held in line with the constitution and there was no option of violating it.