GM Quader, president of the Janata Party, the opposition in parliament, told Prothom Alo, “In our system of government, the prime minister holds 99 percent of the power and all other cabinet members constitute the remaining one percent. So it doesn’t matter.” It does not matter who gets how many ministries.As long as this concentrated power structure remains unchanged, it is not possible for anyone to play an effective role.
In his remarks on Sunday, Obaidul Kader also said that there was no pressure from abroad to form a caretaker government. Opposition parties also criticized it. Top leaders of Gantantra Manch, a coalition of several parties running the movement with the BNP, asked whether the government would wait for pressure from abroad? The Republic Forum thinks that such thinking does not suggest a sense of responsibility.
Speaking about the proposal to include the BNP in an election-time government, author and researcher Mohiuddin Ahmed said, “The Awami League will not meet the demand for a caretaker government beyond the constitution. On the other hand, it does not appear that the opposition parties will Under the Awami League, the proposal to include BNP in the government at the time of elections will be taken positively. As a result, bringing up the old proposal afresh could be nothing but a strategy of the Awami League. But there are questions whether a compromise Will it happen or not?
*The report originally published in the print edition of Prothom Elo has been rewritten in English by Shamim Raza
