After Awami League, BNP has also announced it will organise a council.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the council will be held before the end of March.
He was briefing the media after the meeting of the party’s Standing Committee on Saturday.
Chairperson Khaleda Zia attended the meeting.
Mirza Fakhrul said the date and venue of the council would be announced later.
Awami League will hold its triennial council on Mar 28.
The last council of BNP was held on Dec 8, 2009.
In the Standing Committee meeting chaired by Khaleda, the BNP policymakers mourned the death of its member RA Gani.
They also prayed for the departed soul of Khaleda’s son Arafat Rahman Coco on the eve of his first death anniversary.
Mirza Fakhrul said in the briefing the leaders expressed anger over that fact that oil prices in Bangladesh had not been revised even after neighbours India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan did so, following a drop in global oil prices.
“The Standing Committee strongly demands an immediate cut in fuel oil prices,” he said.
About the government’s decision to sue Khaleda for her comments over the number of Liberation War martyrs, he said, “The home ministry has given permission for one of the cases.”
“I have already clarified the leader’s comments. We think the permission for a case against her even after this (clarification) is political vengeance. The Standing Committee condemns the move,” he added.
Source: bdnews24
