Political dialogue
In BBC Bangla Songlap, one panellist very rightly said that the pre-dialogue was a monolog. I think there is every reason to believe that, if you look at the media briefing by the advisers and the reaction of the political party to the same media.
The pre-dialogue was not transparent , and not necessarily covered the total aspects of the pre-dialogue. If you listen carefully, then you will realise that the advisers were giving priority to their own agenda i.e. whether reforms initiated by this government would be continued by the elected government. In real sense there was no dialogue. A groundwork has been done to submit a perceived government idea or agenda for the actual dialogue to be held reportedly during first half of May 2008; even the government could not give a definite time table and the politicians or political parties would then be blamed for any failure of the uncertain dialogue. We have observed a game plan during the last 16 months.
I hope that the political parties have also taken their secretarial notes. It would be a smart move on their part to submit their notes to the CA, so that a one sided picture is not presented by the five advisers. There is already a notion that it was a monolog and not a dialogue. Simultaneously, I would urge them to publish their secretarial note jointly through the media for public consumption. This step might bring transparency to the whole system of pre-dialogue.
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