Commenting on Opposi-tion Leader Khaleda Zia’s announcement about not participating in the upcoming polls under the all party government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, AL-led grand alliance top leader Rashed Khan Menon MP said,” This is not new, it is her age old political stand.” Menon, also the president of Bangladesh Workers party, however said,” I hope Khaleda Zia will positively respond to the Prime Minister’s plea to participate in the all party government at her press conference tomorrow.”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her address to the nation on Friday proposed an all-party interim government to conduct the upcoming parliamentary elections and hoped that opposition BNP would positively respond to her proposal.
But rejecting the PM’s offer, the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that there would be no election without a non-party, poll-time government to oversee it. “BNP will only go to election under a non-party and neutral government,” she said.
-With The Independent input
