Editorial
Feel inspired for a dialogue
The only means to resolve crisis
SELDOM, if at all, has the country been hemmed in by the foreboding of a doom as it is today. Ironically, this is happening in the prelude to or in the midst of two festive occasions: Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja. One would have expected the political parties to have aimed to resolve the political stalemate on poll-time government before the joyous events as gifts to the nation. But that was not to be. What we see instead is rising tension politically, socially and economically fuelled by a refrain of exchange of threats and counter threats to either mount or resist agitation as the case maybe.
The peaceful respite they have given themselves and to the people, barring Jamaat-Shibir's lethal distraction, should be an extended cooling time in the sequel to the festivities. Such a leeway should then be optimally utilised by both the political parties at some level to earnestly try and initiate a dialogue. There is no substitute for talks at this juncture. Nothing doing strategy is a prescription for disaster. The moot points are all known and so are the different formulas available to be chosen from in a mutually agreeable fashion.
The BNP is for talks and is persistently demanding caretaker system; but it has yet to give any specific formula of the kind of interim government it seeks to have. In the ultimate analysis, the onus is on the ruling party to engage the opposition in a process of negotiated settlement of give and take.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.
Comments