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Greetings Over Tea

PM invites, Oikyafront may decline

Staff Correspondent
The Jatiya Oikyafront may decline Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's invitation to exchange greetings over tea on February 2.
However, a formal decision in this regard will be taken later, said a top Oikyafront leader.
Dispatch of the invitation letters began yesterday.
Awami League sources said Hasina would invite to the Gono Bhaban 75 political parties and alliances with whom she had sat for dialogue before the parliamentary election.
The Gonoforum, a component of the Oikyafront, in an impromptu reaction said there was no question of accepting the invitation as the PM had not set any agenda for the programme.
“There is no agenda in the invitation letter. We do not want to attend the programme for tea only and exchange greetings after a farcical national election [on December 30|," Gonoforum Executive President Subrata Chowdhury said.
However, Oikyafront spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told The Daily Star that he was yet to receive any invitation.
"We will take a decision regarding the PM’s invitation following a meeting of top Oikyafront leaders," he added.
PM'S CALL MERE
RHETORIC: FAKHRUL
Terming Hasina's call for national unity mere political rhetoric, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the nation to forge unity and demanded a fresh election under a caretaker government.
He said the PM's address to the nation was a manifestation of her "guilty conscience”, as she tried to justify her party's victory and the Oikyafront's defeat in the national polls.
"I think she delivered such a speech out of a sense of guilt. It seems to me [that] she perhaps realised what they did [in the election] was not right," Fakhrul told reporters at the BNP's Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka.
About the PM's call for a national unity, Fakhrul said there was no reason for people to accept it as they had seen the PM fail to live up to the promises she had made during talks with the Oikyafront before the election.
"She assured us that no new arrests would be made, no fresh case would be filed and a level-playing field would be ensured. But she couldn't live up to any of her promises. So, now her call for the national unity is nothing but rhetoric."
In a televised address to the nation on Friday evening, Hasina stressed the need for national unity to take the country forward and urged the elected members of parliament from the opposition to take oath and join parliament.
The PM addressed the nation following the formation of her new government on January 7, after securing a landslide victory in the December 30 election.
Taking to reporters, Fakhrul said the election had badly affected the nation as people had lost their confidence in the election process, the Election Commission and the state.
The BNP leader said they were demanding a re-election under a neutral government, scraping the December-30 polls as people did not endorse it.
"We want a fresh election to be held so that people can give their verdict through it.”
He said their party's elected MPs would neither go to parliament nor take oath as they had already rejected the election results.