Staff Reporter :
A 16-member delegation of Jatiya Oikyafront led by Gono Forum President and front leader Dr Kamal Hossain will sit for dialogue on the next general election with the ruling party Awami League on Thursday (November 1).
The dialogue will be held at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence-Gonobhaban at 7:00pm in Dhaka.
The Oikyafront took the decision to attend the dialogue at a meeting held at Dr Kamal Hossain’s chamber at Motijheel around 4:00pm on Tuesday, Oikyafront’s spokesman and JSD President ASM Rab told the media after the meeting.
Earlier in the morning, AL Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap handed over an invitation letter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the opposition alliance leader Dr Kamal Hossain at the latter’s Baily Road residence.
In her invitation, AL Chief Sheikh Hasina thanked Dr Kamal for his letter, and pointed out that the door for discussion is always open for the sake of upholding Bangladesh’s democratic processes that it earned through struggle and sacrifice.
Presided over by Dr Kamal Hossain, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Gono Forum presidium member Jagalul Haider, JSD President ASM Abdur Rab, Vice President Tania Rab, General Secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, and Jatiya Oikya Prokriya leader Sultan Mohammad Mansur attended the meeting.
Meeting sources said, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee members Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Barrister Jamiruddin Sircer and Mirza Abbas, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna and its leader SM Akram, Gano Forum’s Mostafa Mohsin Montu and Subrata Chowdhury, JSD President Abdur Rab and its leaders Abdul Malek Ratan and Tania Rob, Jatiya Oikya Prokriya’s Sultan Mohammad Mansur, ABM Mostafa Amin and Dr. Zafarullah Chowdhury as neutral person are likely to join the dialogue.
Meanwhile, in a press briefing at his Secretariat office yesterday morning, Awami League General Secretary and Roads and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the media that there is no boundary on the guest list.
The issue of dialogue surfaced when Dr Kamal, President of Gono Forum – a key component of the Oikyafront, wrote to the Prime Minister on October 28 asking for dialogue.
The matter of dialogue and Dr Kamal’s letter for dialogue were discussed in the Monday’s cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister expressed positive attitude in this regard.
Apart from inviting Premier Hasina for taking steps towards dialogue, Dr Kamal wrote about Bangabandhu’s ideology and the political situation in Bangladesh.
In the letter, Kamal said: “Bangabandhu taught us how healthy politics unite a nation and turn it into a force to realise people’s legitimate rights.”
“How the unhealthy politics has split the nation and plunged it into a great crisis is known to all of us,” Dr Kamal added.
“It is our national challenge to rid the crisis; and to face the challenge, the Jatiya Oikyafront has placed its seven-point charter and 11-point goal,” he said.
Democracy is one of the main spirits that encouraged us to go for the freedom fight and to sacrifice our lives; and the motto of the democracy is to arrange a free, fair and impartial election, he said.
The elected public representatives would enforce their power in favour of people. They would formulate law to protect the people from exploitation and would govern the country, which are our constitutional pledge, he said in the letter.
OIKYAFRONT’S DEMANDS:
The 11-point goal announced by the alliance includes ensuring checks and balances in the state power, decentralisation of administration, freeing MPs from the stringent restrictions imposed on them under article 70 of the constitution, formation of a constitutional commission to make appointments to all constitutional and other important posts and full independence of the judiciary.
The alliance also announced a seven-point demand, including the one for holding the next parliamentary election under a non-partisan government, dissolution of the parliament and reconstitution of the Election Commission before the polls.
A 16-member delegation of Jatiya Oikyafront led by Gono Forum President and front leader Dr Kamal Hossain will sit for dialogue on the next general election with the ruling party Awami League on Thursday (November 1).
The dialogue will be held at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence-Gonobhaban at 7:00pm in Dhaka.
The Oikyafront took the decision to attend the dialogue at a meeting held at Dr Kamal Hossain’s chamber at Motijheel around 4:00pm on Tuesday, Oikyafront’s spokesman and JSD President ASM Rab told the media after the meeting.
Earlier in the morning, AL Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap handed over an invitation letter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the opposition alliance leader Dr Kamal Hossain at the latter’s Baily Road residence.
In her invitation, AL Chief Sheikh Hasina thanked Dr Kamal for his letter, and pointed out that the door for discussion is always open for the sake of upholding Bangladesh’s democratic processes that it earned through struggle and sacrifice.
Presided over by Dr Kamal Hossain, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Gono Forum presidium member Jagalul Haider, JSD President ASM Abdur Rab, Vice President Tania Rab, General Secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, and Jatiya Oikya Prokriya leader Sultan Mohammad Mansur attended the meeting.
Meeting sources said, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee members Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Barrister Jamiruddin Sircer and Mirza Abbas, Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna and its leader SM Akram, Gano Forum’s Mostafa Mohsin Montu and Subrata Chowdhury, JSD President Abdur Rab and its leaders Abdul Malek Ratan and Tania Rob, Jatiya Oikya Prokriya’s Sultan Mohammad Mansur, ABM Mostafa Amin and Dr. Zafarullah Chowdhury as neutral person are likely to join the dialogue.
Meanwhile, in a press briefing at his Secretariat office yesterday morning, Awami League General Secretary and Roads and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the media that there is no boundary on the guest list.
The issue of dialogue surfaced when Dr Kamal, President of Gono Forum – a key component of the Oikyafront, wrote to the Prime Minister on October 28 asking for dialogue.
The matter of dialogue and Dr Kamal’s letter for dialogue were discussed in the Monday’s cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister expressed positive attitude in this regard.
Apart from inviting Premier Hasina for taking steps towards dialogue, Dr Kamal wrote about Bangabandhu’s ideology and the political situation in Bangladesh.
In the letter, Kamal said: “Bangabandhu taught us how healthy politics unite a nation and turn it into a force to realise people’s legitimate rights.”
“How the unhealthy politics has split the nation and plunged it into a great crisis is known to all of us,” Dr Kamal added.
“It is our national challenge to rid the crisis; and to face the challenge, the Jatiya Oikyafront has placed its seven-point charter and 11-point goal,” he said.
Democracy is one of the main spirits that encouraged us to go for the freedom fight and to sacrifice our lives; and the motto of the democracy is to arrange a free, fair and impartial election, he said.
The elected public representatives would enforce their power in favour of people. They would formulate law to protect the people from exploitation and would govern the country, which are our constitutional pledge, he said in the letter.
OIKYAFRONT’S DEMANDS:
The 11-point goal announced by the alliance includes ensuring checks and balances in the state power, decentralisation of administration, freeing MPs from the stringent restrictions imposed on them under article 70 of the constitution, formation of a constitutional commission to make appointments to all constitutional and other important posts and full independence of the judiciary.
The alliance also announced a seven-point demand, including the one for holding the next parliamentary election under a non-partisan government, dissolution of the parliament and reconstitution of the Election Commission before the polls.
