The Awami League (AL)-led grand alliance yesterday blasted Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman for making ‘false statement’ on why the caretaker government had failed to negotiate a deferment of the general election.
The adviser Wednesday said the government and the Election Commission could not broker any consensus between the two major alliances on the issue despite multi-faceted communications and maximum efforts on their part.
His comment came after two days of intense discussions with the BNP-led four-party alliance collapsed.
“We informed the Election Commission that the education adviser made false statement to the nation. He did it either intentionally or mistakenly,” AL spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam said at the EC secretariat.
The AL had not reacted to the adviser’s comment until yesterday evening.
On Tuesday’s meeting between five advisers and the AL-led combine, Ashraf said the alliance leaders asked them whether they had any specific agenda for discussion.
“They said no. We then asked them the reason for coming to us, to which they replied that discussions between the government and the four-party alliance had not been successful,” Ashraf said.
“But the adviser blamed the grand alliance for the failure. We strongly protested and condemned the remarks,” he said.
He said the grand alliance also urged the education adviser and the caretaker government to keep from such remarks in the future.
As the BNP-led alliance refused to take part in the December 18 parliamentary election, the caretaker government started negotiation with them with the proposal for deferring the polls to December 28.
The five advisers also held discussions with the AL-led grand alliance on the issue.
The BNP-led alliance however did not agree to the proposal as they had been pressing for deferring the polls by at least one month.
The government then announced that the parliamentary elections would be held as scheduled on December 18.
In the statement, the education adviser blamed the two alliances for failure of the talks.
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