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Haroon Habib
DHAKA: Politics in Bangladesh appears to have reached a crossroads with the Government and Opposition parties currently facing each other on the issue of reforms to the caretaker government system and the Election Commission, ahead of the next general elections. The major Opposition party Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina and most of its allies have indicated that they would not participate in the election scheduled for early 2007 if the Government does not heed their demand for the reforms.
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But the BNP-led four-party alliance has brushed the issue aside and asserted that the next election will be held under the existing system. Although the demand for reform of the caretaker government, to make it more accountable and to ensure its neutral conduct, was initiated by the Awami League, it has become a major demand of all Opposition parties and the civil society. The Awami League has said that it would not only boycott the election but also "resist" it if the ruling coalition holds the next poll without reforming the system incorporated in the country's Constitution in 1996. One of the major concerns for the Awami League and its allies is the former Chief Justice, K. M. Hasan, who is set to head of the next caretaker government. They have questioned his neutrality on the ground that Mr. Hasan was associated with the BNP before becoming a judge. He is also close to Lt. Col. Farooq Rehman, one of the masterminds of the 1975 assassination of Mujibur Rahman.
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