Don't call me, I will call you

We are entering interesting times here in Bangladesh. We just hit an important date: October 25th. Political crisis is mounting over the next general election, which must be completed between October 25, 2013 and January 24, 2014. Prior to the incumbent changing the Constitution, it was necessary for the government in Dhaka to resign and form a non-party interim government to run the national election.

The Prime Minister Hasina has made crystal clear she would not go for a caretaker government and declared that the upcoming elections would be held under her Awami League led incumbent government as the Constitutional amendment had already scrapped the caretaker or interim government.

However, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party maintains its demand that the government should bring a neutral government and that the present Parliament must be dissolved before the general election.

So what do we have here? A huge political impasse! Not to worry, Hasina promised she would call the opposition leader Khaleda Zia to settle the issue. For days everybody was holding their breath, hoping the ladies would get together and sort it out.

In the breaking news today: "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called Opposition leader Khaleda Zia this afternoon to invite her to a dialogue over polls-time government but failed to reach. The prime minister called the opposition leader at her red phone at 1:15pm but could not talk with her as no-one picked up the phone for half an hour."

Shucks, we missed a huge opportunity. But, wait, there is another breaking news now:

"BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will call Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 6:00pm today".

So there is still hope after all! Once we get done phone tagging.