Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has expressed doubt over continuation of the BNP-led Opposition's movement for a non-party polls-time government in future.
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"Apart from them, there is no Opposition."
Responding to a query, he told reporters, "Of course we'll welcome them if they join the all -party government. This is their only future."
But the 10th parliamentary election will be held in time even if the BNP-led 18-Party alliance does not join it, he added.
Eight members of the Prime Minister’s proposed 'all-party' interim cabinet, which will oversee the next polls, have already taken oath.
The Cabinet Division on Thursday also published a gazette notification allocating portfolios to the ministers of the poll-time government, leaving out 30 ministers of the outgoing cabinet.
But the Opposition has rejected the government's offer to join the interim cabinet, calling it a 'farce'.
According to the Constitution, the Election Commission will have to hold the polls by Jan 24 next year. The schedule is likely to be announced on the first or second day of the next week to conduct the polling in early January.
However, the BNP on Friday also threatened to cripple Bangladesh if the schedule for the general election was announced without installing a ‘non-party’ caretaker government.
| "It cannot be said what will happen next. Nothing may happen. Because the Opposition is in complete disarray," he told reporters on Friday evening after visiting the renovation works of the Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar. According to him, there are some Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir 'terrorists and goons' in the Opposition alliance |
Responding to a query, he told reporters, "Of course we'll welcome them if they join the all -party government. This is their only future."
But the 10th parliamentary election will be held in time even if the BNP-led 18-Party alliance does not join it, he added.
Eight members of the Prime Minister’s proposed 'all-party' interim cabinet, which will oversee the next polls, have already taken oath.
The Cabinet Division on Thursday also published a gazette notification allocating portfolios to the ministers of the poll-time government, leaving out 30 ministers of the outgoing cabinet.
But the Opposition has rejected the government's offer to join the interim cabinet, calling it a 'farce'.
According to the Constitution, the Election Commission will have to hold the polls by Jan 24 next year. The schedule is likely to be announced on the first or second day of the next week to conduct the polling in early January.
However, the BNP on Friday also threatened to cripple Bangladesh if the schedule for the general election was announced without installing a ‘non-party’ caretaker government.
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