AL leaders making contradictory statements
Some leaders of the ruling Awami League are making contradictory statements about holding talks with the opposition to discuss the formation of an election-time government, alleged BNP leader Abdul Moin Khan yesterday.
"Sometimes they [ruling party leaders] agree to hold dialogue and urge the opposition to sit in talks in or outside of the parliament. And sometimes they announce that no dialogue will be held," he said.
He was speaking at a discussion programme at Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Thanking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her recent announcement that the current parliament will be dissolved on October 25, he said all the problems will be solved if she [Hasina] now makes another announcement of restoring the caretaker government in the constitution.
At another programme at the same venue, BNP leader Rafiqul Islam Miah said a BNP lawmaker had withdrawn the adjournment motion seeking discussion in parliament for restoration of the caretaker government as the government wanted to trap the opposition party in the name of discussion.
The government would have scrapped the issue of caretaker government if the opposition MPs joined the discussion.
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