The Awami League is ready for talks with the opposition should it respond positively to the Prime Minister's proposal on poll-time interim government, the party's spokesman has said.
"We hope they (BNP) will respond positively to the Prime Minister's proposal she made during an interview with the BBC recently," Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said at 'Meet the Reporters' organised by the Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Saturday.
In the wake of the BNP's repeated demand for restoration of the caretaker government system, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said in the interview that the opposition BNP could join the interim cabinet to be constituted ahead of the next parliamentary polls. She had expressed her unwillingness to hand over state affairs to an unelected government.
But BNP chief Khaleda Zia rejected outright the proposal saying that the next polls must be held under a non-party caretaker government.
Hanif said he was not frustrated at the rejection of the proposal. "We, the politicians, often take many decisions and change the decisions realising the reality. There is no final word in politics."
The chances of making a formal proposal for talks by the ruling party to the opposition were thin if it did not budge from its stance of not taking part in the elections without restoration of the caretaker government system, he said.
"We will take an initiative for talks to set the framework of the poll-time interim cabinet if the opposition responds positively to the Prime Minister's proposal," he added.
Hanif urged the BNP to join the House and place their proposal on the formation of the interim government, if they had any.
Also a special assistant to the Prime Minister, Hanif said that the opposition party had been invited several times during the latest constitutional amendment. "But they didn't respond and are pushing the country to unrest by waging movements."
On the issue of Dr Muhammad Yunus' reaction to the cabinet decision on Grameen Bank, Hanif said the government had taken the decision to inform people of the facts about Grammen Bank, not to destroy it. "Dr Yunus is not above the law of the country though he is a Nobel laureate!"
"We hope they (BNP) will respond positively to the Prime Minister's proposal she made during an interview with the BBC recently," Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said at 'Meet the Reporters' organised by the Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Saturday.
In the wake of the BNP's repeated demand for restoration of the caretaker government system, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said in the interview that the opposition BNP could join the interim cabinet to be constituted ahead of the next parliamentary polls. She had expressed her unwillingness to hand over state affairs to an unelected government.
But BNP chief Khaleda Zia rejected outright the proposal saying that the next polls must be held under a non-party caretaker government.
Hanif said he was not frustrated at the rejection of the proposal. "We, the politicians, often take many decisions and change the decisions realising the reality. There is no final word in politics."
The chances of making a formal proposal for talks by the ruling party to the opposition were thin if it did not budge from its stance of not taking part in the elections without restoration of the caretaker government system, he said.
"We will take an initiative for talks to set the framework of the poll-time interim cabinet if the opposition responds positively to the Prime Minister's proposal," he added.
Hanif urged the BNP to join the House and place their proposal on the formation of the interim government, if they had any.
Also a special assistant to the Prime Minister, Hanif said that the opposition party had been invited several times during the latest constitutional amendment. "But they didn't respond and are pushing the country to unrest by waging movements."
On the issue of Dr Muhammad Yunus' reaction to the cabinet decision on Grameen Bank, Hanif said the government had taken the decision to inform people of the facts about Grammen Bank, not to destroy it. "Dr Yunus is not above the law of the country though he is a Nobel laureate!"
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