The Prime Minister tried to reach the Opposition Leader over phone for half an hour from 1.15pm to 1.45 pm,” the PMs special assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil told bdnews24. “But she could not get through. Shakil said the Prime Minister would continue trying to reach out to the Opposition Leader. Another official at the Prime Ministers office, who preferred anonymity, told bdnews24 that a personal aide to the PM had called BNP Chairpersons special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas. He [Biswas] was told that the Prime Minister is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Awami League Parliamentary Party at 6pm. The Leader of the Opposition can call her back by 6pm, if she wants to, the official said. The call came in the wake of a threat by the BNP chief to enforce a 60-hour nationwide shutdown from Sunday. Khaleda Zia, speaking at a public gathering of the 18-party alliance, said the non-stop general strike from 6am Sunday through to 6pm Tuesday would start if the Prime Minister failed launch talks to settle disputes over the neutral cabinet to oversee the national polls due in just three months.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:10:19 +0000
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