The Awami League on Sunday said it had no information on the opposition's July 10 deadline about the caretaker government issue, but insisted that all political parties will join the next general election.
Opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia at a Dhaka rally on Mar 12 set the deadline for the government to reinstate caretaker government system before the 2014 parliamentary election and said otherwise, it will announce fresh agitation programmes on June 11.
Awami League's General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam told journalists after opening an upazilla governance project in Dhaka that they had no information about that deadline.
"So I cannot comment on it," Syed Ashraf, also the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, said. "But we believe there will be an acceptable solution after dialogue, which is a continuous process."
The opposition has been demanding a return of the caretaker government system from last year when the provision was invalidated by the court.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on more than one occasion has asserted that the next elections would be held under her government, but the opposition leaders said they also know how to push the ruling coalition to accept the demand and revive the caretaker system to oversee the parliamentary polls.
A confident Awami League general secretary said they were 'certain' that all parities will take part in the next election.
"The Constitution is our guiding factor. There will be dialogues (following the Constitution), there will be decisions, there will be elections and all will participate in the election where people will give their mandate on the next government."
"We are certain."
Syed Ashraf said people might see the process of the 'dialogue is not going on right track'.
"Initially (for a dialogue) everyone disagrees, but finally all agrees," he said in an apparent gesture that the government is going to stick to its gun on the caretaker issue.
Opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia at a Dhaka rally on Mar 12 set the deadline for the government to reinstate caretaker government system before the 2014 parliamentary election and said otherwise, it will announce fresh agitation programmes on June 11.
Awami League's General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam told journalists after opening an upazilla governance project in Dhaka that they had no information about that deadline.
"So I cannot comment on it," Syed Ashraf, also the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, said. "But we believe there will be an acceptable solution after dialogue, which is a continuous process."
The opposition has been demanding a return of the caretaker government system from last year when the provision was invalidated by the court.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on more than one occasion has asserted that the next elections would be held under her government, but the opposition leaders said they also know how to push the ruling coalition to accept the demand and revive the caretaker system to oversee the parliamentary polls.
A confident Awami League general secretary said they were 'certain' that all parities will take part in the next election.
"The Constitution is our guiding factor. There will be dialogues (following the Constitution), there will be decisions, there will be elections and all will participate in the election where people will give their mandate on the next government."
"We are certain."
Syed Ashraf said people might see the process of the 'dialogue is not going on right track'.
"Initially (for a dialogue) everyone disagrees, but finally all agrees," he said in an apparent gesture that the government is going to stick to its gun on the caretaker issue.
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