BNP skips dialogue but CEC says will wait for it to join

The BNP on Wednesday stayed away from the Election Fee’s dialogue, calling it ineffective, however the chief election commissioner (CEC) stated they might look forward to the opposition occasion to hitch.

“This fee has no energy to carry a free, truthful, and credible election. It’s not doable with out a impartial caretaker authorities. So, such sort of dialogue has no worth,” BNP Secretary Basic Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir advised The Enterprise Commonplace yesterday.

“We’ve already knowledgeable the Election Fee that we’ll not be a part of the dialogue,” he added.

The fee had mounted Wednesday 3pm for the dialogue with the BNP and invited the occasion accordingly.

Nonetheless, CEC Kazi Habibul Awal needs to attend for the opposition occasion to hitch the dialogue.

“We’ll look forward to the BNP,” stated the CEC responding to a question at a press briefing on the EC Constructing after its dialogue with Ganotantri Occasion.

He, nonetheless, didn’t make any remark when requested whether or not the fee will take a particular initiative to convey the BNP into the dialogue.

Election Commissioner Md Alamgir advised TBS that the dialogue is not going to be harmed because the BNP didn’t attend.

“We don’t suppose that the dialogue has been affected by their absence. However it could have been higher if that they had come,” he added.

Relating to the events that participated within the dialogue, he stated, “Political events have given us effectively thought out opinions. They’ve enriched us. These will certainly assist in holding truthful elections.”

“It could have been higher if all of the events had joined. For this, we have now to attend for some extra time,” continued the election commissioner.

He stated the twelfth parliamentary election can be held on the finish of subsequent 12 months or the next month and added, “We expect there may be nonetheless loads of time.”

In response to the query of whether or not they’ll take any initiative to convey the BNP into dialogue, Md Alamgir stated, “We’ve taken initiatives repeatedly.”

“We communicated with them for attending a gathering about digital voting machines, however they didn’t come. Now we communicated with them for collaborating within the dialogue, however they didn’t flip up once more. Communication will proceed sooner or later. We’ll wait till the election,” he added.  

The EC was supposed to carry dialogues with three political events together with BNP on Wednesday.

Aside from BNP, the 20-party alliance’s Bangladesh Muslim League and Kalyan Occasion additionally boycotted the dialogue.

The EC started holding dialogues with the nation’s 39 registered political events on the upcoming nationwide election on 17 July. The dialogue will proceed until 31 July.