Opposition leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reaffirmed her stance to sit for dialogue with the government over non-partisan caretaker government to ensure participation of all political parties. BNP Vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told The Independent that the reply to US Secretary of State John Kerry was sent on Wednesday. Kerry wrote the letter on September 7 to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Opposition leader, Khaleda Zia urging them to sit in a dialogue to break the impasse for holding the next polls with the participation of all parties.
Mobin said, in her reply Khaleda noted that the Bangladesh people too share the Secretary of State’s concern over the poll issue and would like to see participation of all in the elections and arrive at a solution through dialogue.
Despite BNP’s positive attitude to the UN Secretary Generals initiative to hold dialogue between the two major players of Bangladesh politics, there has been no response from the government side thus far, the BNP leader said.
The government was moving to hold polls unilaterally ignoring
the people’s demand, Mobin
quoted Khaleda as telling John
Kerry.
About Khaleda Zia’s letter to Secretary John Kerry, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni declined to make any comment in this regard.
Asked if the Prime Minister would send a reply to Kerry’s letter to her, Dipu Moni said, “The letter was written to the Prime Minister.
So, any reply would go from the Prime Minister’s Office.”
-With The Independent input
