Opposition's attitude

By Nur Jahan Chittagong
4 April 2006, 18:00 PM
Photo: AFP
The government has formally invited the opposition political parties for a dialogue but they are making many excuses and declared that their agitation programmes will go on side by side with the dialogue.

We resent this attitude, what is the need of confrontation when they are going to sit together for a solution? We have got the feeling that the opposition parties' acceptance of a dialogue is a sham, they will continue dilly dallying, stage street programmes in such a way that they will get the opportunity to call hartal and violent demonstrations.

The latest news is that the opposition declared that they might shun the talks if the Jamaat is on the committee. Jamaat is part of the government, so how do you leave it out?

The issues boil down to one point: the opposition parties are not sincere about the dialogue.