The main opposition BNP will not go to the parliament unless it is offered a ''respectable number'' of seats and the issue of party chairperson'' Khaleda Zia''s cantonment house is resolved, the opposition chief whip has said, reports bdnews24.com.

"It is an unprecedented move to offer seats of the opposition to the ministers," Zainal Abdin Farroque told reporters on Sunday at the parliament''s media centre.
"We have told the speaker to offer us seats in the front row. Many of our MPs sit in the back row," Farroque said.

"But, we have received no good answer from the speaker on the issue."
Farroque also alleged that the speaker had not resolved the issue of the parliament''s daily agenda for opposition chief Khaleda''s house.
Her personal doctors and staffers were being stopped entering her house in Dhaka Cantonment and using her car allotted from the parliament, he also alleged.
"Under this circumstance, we believe there is no environment (for us) to be back in the parliament."

The government is virtually withdrawing police security from the chairperson''s political office in Gulshan, Farroque further alleged.The BNP wants to go to the parliament and also wants to cooperate the government. But, the government party does not want so."

The BNP has been absent from parliament demanding more seats in the front row though budget session started on June 4. The speaker allotted one more seat abut the part wants at least for front-row seats.

Meanwhile, bdnews24.com. adds: BNP is experiencing ripples of conflict as competition heats up among its young leaders vying for positions in the organisational ladder, senior party policymaker Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said.

"Once the effective leadership pattern emerges through the councils, there will an end to such conflicts," Mosharraf, a national standing committee member, told reporters at his Segunbagicha office on Sunday.

"The convening committees are an interim arrangement. Around the convening committees at a few places, some leadership crises have been reported, which will be soon resolved."

Questioned whether there would be change in the post of secretary general, Mosharraf said, "The chairperson only can appoint or change a secretary general.
I, however, will welcome any proposal of selecting a secretary general through the central council."

The former minister alleged that the ruling Awami League-led alliance was keeping the opposition from joining the ongoing parliamentary session unfortunately. Main opposition BNP is staying away over a seating arrangement dispute.

To the government, a seat in the front row in parliament is more precious than the main opposition''s presence, he said.

"Since you have all the seats in parliament, can''t you forego only one front row seat and have BNP in the House?" he asked the government:

BNP will make a documentary film highlighting projections of probable damages the much discussed dam India proposes to erect at Tipaimukh might wreak on Bangladesh rivers downstream and the environment in general, Mosharraf said.

The film will be screened at home and abroad to sensitise people everywhere of the threats the proposed dam poses.

He told reporters that the standing committee at a meeting on Saturday discussed the Tipaimukh menace and the construction of the Asian Highway.