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Opposition BNP’s joining the Parliament remains in Limbo  


BNP, the main opposition in the Bangladesh Parliamenthas been boycotting the parliament on the issue of seating arrangement. The Speaker of the parliament Abdul Hamid had had severalrounds of talks with the opposition as well as with the government party. But no progress in this regard has been reported so far.

The Speaker has urged main opposition party BNP to return to the House for the current session to settle the seat dispute for the next session of parliament.

He says that the issue on the seating arrangement of the opposition members will be resolved in the next session of the parliament.Lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition are likely to decide today whether to return to parliament for the current session after the speaker told them that he hoped to settle the dispute over seat allocation before the next session.

The lawmakers of BNP and its allies Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Jatiya Party did not return to the session on Monday.

They will hold a meeting this afternoon with the leader of the opposition, Khaleda Zia, in the chair at her meeting room in the parliament to decide whether to return to the house for the current session, according to opposition chief whip Jainal Abedin Faruk.

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