The AL Central Working Committee (ALCWC) at a meeting yesterday also decided that if the talks resuming this evening after a day's break fail to break the deadlock, the opposition and its allies will enforce tougher agitation programmes, sources said.

"I will not take up any other issue until the one regarding Justice Hasan is resolved first," AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil told reporters after the meeting held at the party's Dhanmondi office with Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

"At the talks, I have placed reform proposals from point 1 to 31 along with explanations. So, resolutions too should come in the same order by resolving first the number 1 topic on the agenda (appointment of chief of the next caretaker government," Jalil, also coordinator of the 14-party opposition combine, observed.

The caretaker government issue will be followed by the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC).

The ALCWC also discussed different aspects of the opposition combine's street agitations that have been continuing since July last year to press for the reforms in the caretaker government and electoral systems.

Hasina, the AL president, directed her party leaders to get the activists ready for vigorous movement ahead. For this, she asked them to form action committees across the country.

"The party chief told us that the dialogue may not produce a positive result. In that case, we'll have to realise our demands through agitation," a senior AL leader told The Daily Star yesterday.

The working committee noted that the fate of the dialogue will be determined in the next couple of days when BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan will clarify the government's stance on Justice Hasan, added the meeting sources.

"We are afraid that the BNP-Jamaat government might hand over power to Hasan, forcing us to go for street agitations again," said another senior AL leader.

According to the constitution, Justice Hasan is supposed to be the chief adviser of the next caretaker government. But the AL and its allies have already declared that they resist Hasan taking over the running of the interim government. They will not allow any election under his government.

"The dialogue and the reforms movement will continue simultaneously," Jalil said.

The AL led 14-party combine is scheduled to stage countrywide demonstrations for electoral reforms today while Jalil will meet his ruling party counterpart in the third round of the negotiations that kicked off Thursday at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

At the one-to-one discussions, the AL general secretary has already called for the issue of Justice KM Hasan to be resolved first before going to other topics.

The AL body at the meeting said it will try its best to make the ongoing dialogue a success, but in no way will it let the talks drag.