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1 8-Party Meet

Jamaat remains alliance partner Hartal on Jan 29

Rashidul Hasan
The BNP does not seem to have any plan to sever ties with Jamaat-e-Islami right now.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is rather annoyed with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's urging her to part company with Jamaat and it was reflected in her comments during a meeting of the 18-party alliance last night.
She questioned why it gives Hasina a headache if the BNP keeps ties with Jamaat and said the party will lose votes if people think its association with Jamaat is bad, said meeting sources.
This was the first meeting of the 18-party alliance since November 19 last year.
In the two-hour meeting from around 9:00pm, the alliance decided in principle to observe hartal on January 29, the inaugural day of the 10th parliament.
At one point of the meeting, BNP chief raised the issue of Jamaat, according to a top alliance leader who was present at the meeting.
Her stance was supported by other alliance leaders.
Hasina and the ruling Awami League have long been urging the BNP chief to cut relations with Jamaat for its involvement in war crimes in 1971 and recent violence.
After the January 5 polls, Khaleda in her interview to foreign media said her party's relations with Jamaat is only strategic.
However, the BNP chief is scheduled to formally announce the opposition's next course of action through a press conference tomorrow. Although almost all top leaders of the alliance attended the meeting, no other BNP leader was there.
In the meeting, alliance leaders discussed their failure to resist the "one-sided" January 5 election and wage tougher movement in the capital.
Khaleda also lambasted top BNP policymakers, including Dhaka city leaders, for their inactiveness.
The alliance partners enquired Khaleda of diplomats "failure" to stop the government from holding the January 5 election.
An alliance leader drew Khaleda's attention on diplomats' presence in Sunday's oath taking of the PM and ministers at Bangabhaban, said a meeting source.
In response, the BNP chief said diplomats did not go there to congratulate the new government. "They rather went to express their concern centring the farcical election," an alliance leader quoted Khaleda as saying.
Jamaat's working council member Redwan Ullah Shahedi, Jamiat-e-Ulamaye Islam acting secretary general Shahinur Pasha, Khelafat Majlish Secretary General Ahmed Abdul Quader, Liberal Democratic Party Ghairmen Oli Ahmed, Islami Oikya Jote Ghairmen Abdul Latif Nezami, Bangladesh Jatiya Party Chairman Andaleeve Rahman, Bangladesh Labour Party chief Mustafizur Rahman Iran, Jatiya Gonotantrik Party President Safiul Alam Pradhan, Bangladesh Kalyan Party Chairman Syed Mohammad Ibrahim, Islamic party chairman Abdul Mobin, National People's Party Chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossen Nilu, National Democratic Party chief Golam Murtoza, Muslim League chief AHM Kamruzzaman Khan, National Awami Party Sheikh Anwarul Haq and Democratic League General Secretary Saifuddin Moni, among others were present in the meeting.