Prominent citizens and a number of political analysts on Saturday stressed that the country has been waiting for a most desired dialogue between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia as it is the only way to resolve the current political deadlock.
Speakers at a citizen’s dialogue programme on “Requisite Measures in the Prevailing Circumstances of Confrontation” said dialogue between two leaders is needed to solve the uncertainty about the upcoming national elections.
Nagorik Oikya, organised the programme in the city’s Engineers’ Institute auditorium where the analysts also discussed on many aspects of the present political crisis, while a few of them also alleged that the government changed the constitution in favour of Awami League.
Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan, said Sheikh Hasina’s proposal to form an all-party government is theoretically is a very good idea, but the problem is people will not accept her as a head of the all-party government because in practice a Bangladeshi prime minister possess the supreme power.
He said prime minister’s power should be reduced to distribute the power equally among the ministers and to form a balanced government.
Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Sujan, has criticised the prime minister for 15th amendment of the constitution.
Mazumder said the amendment went “against people’s aspiration”, while added that: “the changes in the constitution have been made to keep one person’s unitary decisions.”
ASM Abdur Rob, president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, criticised the decision of imposing section 144 in different districts of the country.
Rob blamed the government for its failure to uphold peace and political stability in the present crisis period of the country.
Mahmudur Rahman Manna, who was on the chair at the programme, called upon the civil society to be loud to create pressure on the chief leaders of BNP and Awami League to make them bound to sit in a dialogue programme for the sack of people.
Among others TIB Trustee Board Chairman M Hafiz Uddin Khan, former Secretary Ali Imam Majumdar, Socialist Party of Bangladesh’s General Secretary Khalequzzaman, Bangla daily Samakal’s Managing Editor Abu Sayeed Khan, Comunist Party of Bngladesh’s General Secretary Abu Zafar, Bangladesh Jatiya Party’s General Secretary Nazmul Haque, spoke at the programme.
