The ruling Awami League makes it clear once again that it will not open talks with the BNP over the upcoming national election.
“There’s no point. They have missed the train last time. We still remember the way Khaleda Zia responded (to the phone call made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina). The BNP had made it clear back then they do not want any talks, but now they want it,” General Secretary Obaidul Quader told a media briefing on Friday.
On Wednesday, the senior Awami League leaders said that a polls-time administration likely to be formed in October.
Asked whether the BNP will have a stake in it, Quader, the road transport minister, said on Thursday that the BNP does not know what it wants.
“We have a specific goal and we have no issues on making it clear; to serve the country as the government and a political party in line with the Constitution,” he said.
On the BNP’s call for a ‘neutral polls-time government’, Quader questioned how the BNP defines neutral.
“For them, their supporters are neutral, everyone else in partial. The party says it will take part in the election and then again calls for movement,” said the senior Awami League leader.