Election-time Govt
AL, BNP urged to negotiate a system
Speakers at a discussion yesterday emphasised that the ruling Awami League and main opposition BNP should negotiate a system of election-time government for the next parliamentary election in order to escape violence.
People have begun to doubt whether the election, due by next January, would be held at all, as a system of interim government is not in place yet, said senior journalist Amanullah Kabir.
The present government has scrapped the caretaker government system through constitutional amendment though it received acceptability at home and abroad, he told the roundtable, “All-party Interim Governmentâ€, in the capital's Jatiya Press Club.
The journalist said economic development took place in the country in the last 20 years when democratic governments were in power, and those governments won in elections held under non-partisan governments.
Faro Al Siddique, adviser to Nagorik Samaj, which organised the discussion, suggested a 15-member advisory committee made up of ruling and opposition party representatives and eminent non-partisan people for holding the next election.
He also proposed constituting a new and strong Election Commission, as, what he said, most political parties did not have trust in the present Election Commission.
Kazi Md Oabidur Rashid, president of Nagorik Samaj, and ABM Osman Gani, its general secretary, among others, also spoke on the occasion.
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