The main opposition, BNP, may skip the last session of the present parliament that begins on Thursday, party chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque said on Sunday.
BNP is also unlikely to hold any meeting of its parliamentary party, which usually sits ahead of a new session, Farroque said.
“I do not see any possibility of our joining. So far, there has been no signal from the party high-ups to ask the MPs to join the session,” Farroque told the Dhaka Tribune at his office on Sunday.
“But Madam will take the ultimate decision in this regard,” he added, referring to opposition leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Opposition members of parliament last attended the Jatiyo Sangsad during the budget session on June 3 after a long absence of 83 days.
The opposition’s probable absence from the assembly could hamper a possible government-opposition dialogue on thrashing out an acceptable structure of the interim administration to oversee the next general elections.
The BNP-led opposition alliance has threatened to boycott the polls unless the provision for an election-time non-party caretaker government is restored, a demand that the ruling party vehemently rejects.
Farrqoue said there was no point in joining the house unless the government moved to restore the caretaker government system to oversee the general elections, which are due early next year.
According to the constitution, the Awami League-led ninth parliament is supposed to expire on October 24—90 days ahead of the mandated five-year term.
The ruling party, however,has already made it clear that the non-party caretaker provision would not be reinserted into the constitution, whether the opposition takes part in the polls or not.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has also said the next polls would take place without dissolving the incumbent parliament.