She’ll also meet 18-Party leaders Wednesday night
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit with her party’s standing committee members tonight (Tuesday night) to discuss the country’s latest political situation and finalise the opposition’s next course of action.
The meeting is scheduled to start at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office around 9:30pm, her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told UNB.
Khaleda, also the leader of the opposition in parliament, will also meet the top leaders of the 18-Party alliance on Wednesday night.
Party insiders said Khaleda will discuss with the party policymakers and alliance leaders the country’s overall political situation, her telephone conversation with the Prime Minister, the prospect of political dialogue and finalise the next course of action to force the government to concede to its demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party caretaker government.
As per the earlier decision of the BNP policymakers, the opposition was to go for tougher action programmes like siege and blockade from November 3 to realise their demand.
But the standing committee may revise its decision following the sudden development in politics after the Prime Minister’s phone call to the opposition leader for talks.
The BNP policymaker will also decide whether the opposition leader should go to Ganobhaban in response to the PM’s call and elaborately discuss the issue.
A standing committee member wishing anonymity said they will work out their plans in a way so that they can carry on both the dialogue and movement together to keep the government under pressure.
From a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on October 25, Khaleda asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take steps for talks by Saturday with a threat that they will enforce a 60-hour shutdown from at 6am on Sunday.
The Prime Minister phoned the opposition leader on Saturday evening and invited her to Ganobhaban for talks and requested her to withdraw the hartal. But the opposition leader refused to withdraw the shutdown saying it was a late call and she will go to Gonobhaban for talks any time after the end of the hartal programme.
The opposition’s 60-hour hartal entered the third and final day on Tuesday amid widespread violence that left at least 12 people as of 2pm.
Source: UNB Connect
