Opposition BNP at its standing committee meeting on Saturday night decided to pursue soft programmes until mid-September to push for its demand for caretaker government system as it wants not to squander its public support with violent programmes.
“We want go ahead with soft programmes like holding rallies, demonstrations and carrying out mass campaign…we’re now preferring a go-slow policy,” a party leader told UNB after the meeting.
Meeting sources said before going for the decisive movement, the party policymakers decided to carry out mass a campaign across the country to increase people’s involvement with their anti-government agitations.
Party senior leaders will make district-level tours soon to this end. BNP chief Khaleda Zia will also visits some districts and hold public meetings there to mobilise more public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
“The BNP chief will visit different districts and the central leaders will carry out mass campaign at district levels,” party standing committee member Tariqul Islam told reporters after the meeting.
The standing committee members agreed to go for the final movement from October with harsher programmes if the government does not concede to their demand, the sources said.
The meeting that began around 9:15pm at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office with the BNP chairperson in the chair ended around 11:20pm.
Khaleda Zia was learned to have briefed the party policymakers about her parley with US Ambassador Den Mozena held on August 11.
At the meeting, Khaleda Zia heard the opinions and suggestions of her party’s policymakers as she will hold another meeting with the top leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance at her Gulshan office on Sunday night to finalise their next line of action to force the government to arrange the next polls under a non-party administration.
The BNP chief at the meeting with the 18-party leaders may finalise some demonstration programmes.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, party standing committee members RA Gani, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, M Shamsul Islam, Tariqul Islam, Jamiruddin Sircar, Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, MK Anwar, Rafiqul Islam Miah, ASM Hannan Shah, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan and Nazrul Islam Khan attended the meeting.
Source: UNBConnect
