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Download PDF The government is now working out the modalities of its much-awaited dialogue with political parties to hold a focussed discussion with them.
“The modalities [for the dialogue] are being worked out,” Syed Fahim Munaim, press secretary to the chief adviser, said yesterday.
Although a schedule for the dialogue has not yet been fixed, he hoped that the discussions would start this month.
Asked if detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina would be allowed to join in the proposed dialogue, the press secretary said the modalities would determine every detail as to who would participate and whether the talks would be held together with all parties or separately with them.
Meanwhile, IANS from Brussels yesterday reported that Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury told a meeting with Belgium think tank that the caretaker government intends to begin the political dialogue within two weeks.
“It is our primary goal, indeed our constitutional obligation, to hold free, fair and credible elections. The response from all political parties and the public has been very positive,” he said.
The adviser said over 50 million voters have already been registered and the voter card would also serve as national identity card.
“So far, everything is on track.
What is left, however, is a dialogue with the political parties,” the adviser said.
Meanwhile, major political parties, including the Awami League and the BNP, welcomed the much-awaited dialogue aimed at removing the doubts about the parliamentary elections.
The parties said they would raise the issues of the release of the two detained former prime ministers, lifting the state of emergency and bringing down the sky-high prices of commodities.
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