JS Speaker to try freeing two BNP lawmakers

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday assured a BNP parliamentary party delegation that she would "make sincere efforts" so that two arrested opposition lawmakers could join the budget session of Jatiya Sangsad beginning June 3.
The delegation led by opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque handed over a letter to the speaker at her office, requesting her to take necessary measures to have BNP lawmakers MK Anwar and Barkatullah Bulu freed.
Meanwhile, senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday said the opposition MPs would not table any bill on the caretaker government issue in parliament as the government should do it. He said they might join a discussion to decide the head of an election-time government.
BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the dialogue efforts regarding the caretaker issue were being disrupted due to government's “obstinate stand”.
The two leaders spoke to journalists after placing wreaths at the grave of former president Ziaur Rahman at the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar to mark his 32nd death anniversary.