Govt must hold dialogue: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said on Friday that the ruling Awami League must hold dialogue with BNP if it wanted to rule the country.
At a discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity he said, ‘If you [AL] want to rule the country, you have to hold dialogue with BNP and other public-supported parties.’
‘Either sooner or later, they [AL] have to hold dialogue...They will hold dialogue as soon as we launch movement,’ he said referring to Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader’s remarks that there was no possibility of any dialogue with BNP.
About Obaidul Quader’s comment that BNP was a frustrated political party, Nazrul asked why then the government was busy naming BNP, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her eldest son Tarique Rahman.
The discussion on ‘Institution of an independent and neutral Election Commission and expectation of people’ was organised by Bangladesh Islamic Party.
Nazrul said that the commission had been transformed into a ‘rotten’ institution.
‘EC must be reconstituted with the people who have honesty, courage and respect to law and constitution, but not leaned to any quarters,’ he said.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a press conference at the party central office at Naya Paltan said that Obaidul Quader was vocal about frustration of BNP, but his remarks frustrated the nation.
He said that BNP handed over power to a caretaker government on October 28, 2006, 10 years ago, and people would judge why BNP was out of power so many years, if they were allowed to vote. 

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