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18-party may go for noncooperation movement

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may announce tomorrow a fresh set of programmes including "non-cooperation" with the government till the January 5 general election.
Addressing a press conference at her Gulshan office at 5:45pm, she will urge people regardless of their professions and classes to resist Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's move to hold a "one-sided and farcical election", party insiders said.
Khaleda, also chief of the BNP-led 18-party alliance, will place the opposition's latest stance and guidelines regarding the much-talked-about polls.
Meanwhile, BNP spokesperson Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said an amicable solution to the present political crisis was still possible through dialogue over holding a free, fair and
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participatory election if the government was sincere about it.
At a press conference at the Gulshan office, he also said the BNP chairperson will inform people about the rationale for the opposition's tougher programmes, its decision to boycott the January 5 election, the government's insincerity in the talks held earlier and why those had failed.
Replying to queries, Nazrul, also BNP standing committee member, said the party chief at her press conference might respond to the prime minister's allegations that include killing people in the name of movement, Khaleda's absence from the streets during the opposition agitation, her silence over Jamaat leader Quader Mollah's execution and Pakistan parliament's resolution on this.
Khaleda is meeting the press in the wake of the opposition's 20-day countrywide blockade in five spells with the last one ending at 5:00pm tomorrow.
Earlier on October 21, she placed a proposal for a polls-time government comprised of advisers from the 1996 and 2001 caretaker governments. The proposal was rejected by the ruling Awami League.
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BNP Vice Chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury; and the party chairperson's adviser Sabihuddin Ahmed at a meeting yesterday called upon diplomats from five countries "not to recognise" the January 5 "farcical and one-sided" election.
The diplomats from the UK, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and South Korea's missions in Dhaka were present at the meeting held at a city hotel.
Explaining the government move to hold the election unilaterally, the BNP leaders said that more than half of the voters will not be able to exercise their voting right since contestants for 154 of the 300 parliament seats have already been elected unopposed.
During the two-hour meeting, the two leaders apprised the diplomats of the latest political developments in the country and the government's "insincerity" about dialogue with the BNP, sources said.
They also informed the diplomats BNP's latest stance on the January 5 polls.
Asked, one of the diplomats said, "Such meetings are held regularly throughout the year."