Bikolpadhara joint secretary general Mahi B Chowdhury will come up with the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday at the National Press Club, a senior BBD leader told UNB on Monday.
Contacted, Mahi said they have decided that they will not join the 18-party alliance. “We’ll forge a separate alliance with BNP and some other political parties.”
Earlier at an extending meeting of the party, it decided to contest the next general election together with BNP against the current Awami League-led grand alliance.
However, the party leaders had different opinions about the mechanism to make the alliance with BNP and the 18-party alliance.
Later, BBD president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and Mahi held separate meetings with the party’s senior leaders and decided to forge a separate alliance with BNP as many leaders opposed joining the 18-party alliance as they have objection about Jamaat.
Earlier on Saturday night, Mahi held over an hour-long meeting with BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office and finalised the mechanism for separately making an alliance with the main opposition party.
Badruddoza Chowdhury, a close associate of BNP’s founder late president Ziaur Rahman, and its founding secretary general, floated Bikolpodhara Bangladesh with some mid-ranking BNP leaders after quitting BNP in 2004.