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Dhaka, Mar 30 Senior Awami League leader Matia Chowdhury believes the BNP will return to parliament sometime in the next 90 business days again in a thinly veiled dig at the opposition MPs.
Opposition MPs joined the ongoing parliament session on Mar 18 after an average absence of 77 days. According to law, a lawmaker loses his seat if absent for 90 consecutive business days.
"The opposition chief [Khaleda Zia] could not bear the thought of losing money, so she went to parliament just before being absent for 90 days," Awami League Presidium member Matia Chowdhury told a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on Friday.
The ruling Awami League organised the rally to celebrate the legal win against Myanmar in the maritime dispute and observe the "demise of autocratic government."
Bangladesh won against Myanmar on Mar 18 over the over sea limit dispute. The Awami League has also been observing Mar 30, the day the BNP government was forced to step down accepting a caretaker government system in 1996.
"I can vouch before the public that they [BNP] will return to parliament before they are absent for 90 days," Chowdhury, the agriculture minister, added.
Parliament was again hit with boycott of BNP legislators when it resumed on Thursday after a recess of seven days.
Speaker Abdul Hamid also criticised the opposition for not attending the Thursday session. BNP, however, says its MPs will not return unless the remarks by the government leaders that the party had taken money from Pakistan's spy agency ISI in the 1991 elections are deleted from parliamentary records.
Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League took out the rally from the party headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue which came to an end near Suhrawardy Udyan.
Hundreds of party's city activists joined the programme carrying national flags and colourful banners, festoons having portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman and the party chief Sheikh Hasina.
Before the start of the programme, the ruling party's central leaders praised the government for the win against Myanmar over maritime dispute and criticised BNP activities during the case at a UN tribunal.
"With the sea limits win against Myanmar, Sheikh Hasina has presented 'another Bangladesh' through legal and diplomatic battle," Chowdhury said.
She added Hasina will again ride to power with public mandate foiling all opposition conspiracies and hoped that Bangladesh will also win against India over the sea limit dispute.
Terming Khaleda 'an agent of Pakistan', Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif alleged: "The opposition is conspiring to overthrow the present elected government."
"They (BNP) are involved in conspiracies to save the war criminals as they took money from ISI," Hanif said.
Opposition MPs joined the ongoing parliament session on Mar 18 after an average absence of 77 days. According to law, a lawmaker loses his seat if absent for 90 consecutive business days.
"The opposition chief [Khaleda Zia] could not bear the thought of losing money, so she went to parliament just before being absent for 90 days," Awami League Presidium member Matia Chowdhury told a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue on Friday.
The ruling Awami League organised the rally to celebrate the legal win against Myanmar in the maritime dispute and observe the "demise of autocratic government."
Bangladesh won against Myanmar on Mar 18 over the over sea limit dispute. The Awami League has also been observing Mar 30, the day the BNP government was forced to step down accepting a caretaker government system in 1996.
"I can vouch before the public that they [BNP] will return to parliament before they are absent for 90 days," Chowdhury, the agriculture minister, added.
Parliament was again hit with boycott of BNP legislators when it resumed on Thursday after a recess of seven days.
Speaker Abdul Hamid also criticised the opposition for not attending the Thursday session. BNP, however, says its MPs will not return unless the remarks by the government leaders that the party had taken money from Pakistan's spy agency ISI in the 1991 elections are deleted from parliamentary records.
Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League took out the rally from the party headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue which came to an end near Suhrawardy Udyan.
Hundreds of party's city activists joined the programme carrying national flags and colourful banners, festoons having portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman and the party chief Sheikh Hasina.
Before the start of the programme, the ruling party's central leaders praised the government for the win against Myanmar over maritime dispute and criticised BNP activities during the case at a UN tribunal.
"With the sea limits win against Myanmar, Sheikh Hasina has presented 'another Bangladesh' through legal and diplomatic battle," Chowdhury said.
She added Hasina will again ride to power with public mandate foiling all opposition conspiracies and hoped that Bangladesh will also win against India over the sea limit dispute.
Terming Khaleda 'an agent of Pakistan', Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif alleged: "The opposition is conspiring to overthrow the present elected government."
"They (BNP) are involved in conspiracies to save the war criminals as they took money from ISI," Hanif said.
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