Editorial
Opposition's return to parliament
Welcome, but they must stay
Their decision to join the parliamentary session is a step in the right direction in a very important way. Especially because the last budget of the incumbent government is going to be placed in this session. The opposition lawmakers' participation will hopefully make the discussion on budget lively and meaningful.
Also importantly, since this is an election year both the opposition and the ruling party can make the most of this JS session to sort out the major issues of discord between them. In fact, it has offered the much-awaited opportunity for the AL and BNP to engage themselves constructively and devise a way out of the prevailing political impasse over the shape and nature of the polls time government.
It is a good augury that the Treasury Bench lawmakers greeted with enthusiasm the opposition's return to parliament and that unlike in the past there was no use of abusive language, nor a pandemonium in the House over any point of discord on the inaugural day.
This goodwill should continue if only not to give the opposition MPs any cause for abandoning the session.
Hopefully, the opposition BNP will not revert to the boycott culture, but continue to attend the present session through to its end yielding an understanding on the interim government issue.
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