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Appointment with President Today

Khaleda to urge him to weigh in

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will meet President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban this evening to discuss the present political crisis.
She will lead a 20-member delegation of the BNP-led 18-party alliance, party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told journalists last night.
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Fakhrul, however, evaded a direct reply when asked if any leader from Jamaat-e-Islami, a component of the alliance, will be included in the delegation. The team will be comprised of 18-party components, he said.
The president's office fixed 6:30pm today for the meeting after Khaleda sent a letter to I lamid yesterday morning, seeking an appointment, said Bangabhaban sources.
Several BNP policymakers told The Daily Star yesterday that Khaleda will request the president to take steps to resolve the crisis over election-time government through talks.
The BNP chief is also likely to inform the president about the proposal she made last month on the formation of a non-party polistime government.
About the polls-time cabinet formed yesterday, Khaleda will express the opposition's concern that it would worsen the political crisis, BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said.
The alliance last night rejected the "all-party polls-time government", saying it is nothing but a reshuffled ruling alliance cabinet.
The opposition will hold rallies across the country including the capital on Friday, protesting "reshuffle of the cabinet" and demanding restoration of the caretaker government system and release of its arrested leaders.
The BNP acting secretary general announced the programme emerging from a meeting of senior BNP leaders with party chief Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office.
"The reshuffle of the cabinet cannot be considered as all-party polls-time government or an interim government in any way because eight political parties have representation in parliament but in the reshuffled cabinet, only four of them have representation," Fakhrul said.
The election cannot be free and fair under such a government, and so the opposition will not participate in it, he added.
Fakhrul also said this is a grand alliance cabinet formed to hold a one-sided and stage-managed election.
The opposition will continue its "peaceful movement" to realise its demand for holding the next election under a non-party administration, he said.
Earlier in the day, BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed and Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, speaking at two different programmes, said the "all-party government" is nothing but a Baksal administration comprising components of the Awami League-led grand alliance.
Rizvi lambasted Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad for joining the "all-party polls-time government."
He said, "Ershad is a dishonest man, who plays double standard and lacks morality as well as patriotism. He makes contradictory remarks. We don't have any reaction concerning a person who says in the morning people would spite him if he joins unilateral polls and in the evening joins the so-called all-party government."
Rizvi made the remarks at a press briefing at BNP's Nayapaltan central office.