The meeting is likely to discuss future strategies under prevailing circumstances
- BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sits in meeting with 18-party alliance leaders at her Gulshan residence in the capital on Monday night
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has sat with the leaders of 18-party alliance to analyse the current political situation and to devise the next course of action.
The meeting started at chairperson’s Gulshan office at 8:50pm, Syrul Kabir Khan, an official of Khaleda’s press wing told the Dhaka Tribune.
The meeting’s agenda included discussion over the country’s political situation, both pre-polls and current, and how the alliance’s future courses of actions will be devised, sources said.
The meeting with the 18-party leaders is going to take place after the new government has taken shape and adopted its responsibilities to the fullest.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Redwanullah Sahedi, BJP Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partha, LDP President Oli Ahmed and other leaders of 18-party allaince are present in the meeting.
The meeting started after Khaleda Zia’s meeting with the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Bangladesh.
The BNP, who is no longer an opposition in the parliament, has backtracked from agitation programmes – hartals and blockades – for the time being.
The alliance has been staging demonstration programmes demanding polls under the non-party government.
The alliance boycotted the January 5 polls that were held under the all parties’ government.
The 18-party termed the polls and formation of new government as illegal and unconstitutional.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
