Opposition and JS
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The third session of the 9th JS started on September 7. As was anticipated, the main opposition is continuing the boycott that they began in the previous session (budget). The budget was passed without the opposition scrutiny. Now some more important issues are haunting the nation. Some of those are deteriorating law and order (though the home ministry doesn't realize this), unabated price hike, monopoly in tender business, and lastly partisan promotion in the administration. But why does the opposition continue the boycott bypassing the interests of their voters and the nation as a whole? Is the opposition doing it very illogically? I don't think so. The issue of seating arrangement has been wrong both ways. The last speaker gave all the front seats to the opposition perhaps deliberately; and the present speaker has done a wrong computation. He and his colleagues counted the Jatiya Party (JP) in the opposition and gave a few front seats to them. How funny! Everybody knows JP is the second major component of the so-called grand alliance; their seats must logically be on the Treasury side. However, if there are not sufficient seats in the Treasury Bench, the JP can borrow some seats from the back of the Opposition Bench. The Speaker and the Treasury MPs must correct this computational error, provide some more front seats to the opposition and call them generously to come and to debate national issues. The call should be such that the JS can do nothing in the opposition's absence, shunning a stance that they don't care much if the opposition joins or not. I am confident that such a gesture will break the stalemate and the opposition will join parliament sessions shortly.
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