BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will meet her party’s policymakers and leaders of the 18-Party alliance to formulate fresh programmes to press ahead with the opposition movement demanding a nonpartisan administration to oversee the next general election.
She will meet her party’s National Standing Committee on Wednesday night and top leaders of the opposition coalition the next day, her special assistant Advocate Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas said.
He told bdnews24.com that the Standing Committee meeting will begin at 8:30pm on Aug 14 and the 18-Party alliance meeting on Aug 15 night.
He said the meetings would discuss the current political situation and the course of the opposition’s movement.
The BNP would not resort to any demonstration if the government created “equal opportunities for all” by heeding its demand for the restoration of a caretaker government, Khaleda Zia had said on Friday.
She took this position though several senior BNP leaders had warned of a tougher opposition agitation after Eid.
Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told bdnews24.com: “We are still hoping that the government will choose come to an understanding and take a positive decision about the issue of non-party government. Our leader has already said that there will be no need for agitation if the government meets our demand.”
But the party would be left with no option but to intensify its stir if the demand is not met, he added.
Responding to a question about the nature of the fresh programmes, Standing Committee member Moudud Ahmed said that would be decided in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh is bracing for a 48-hour nationwide general strike called by BNP’s key ally Jamaat-e-Islami to protest a High Court verdict which revoked its registration.
Though the main opposition is not in favour of the approaching shutdown, Mirza Fakhrul had said in an earlier statement that his party did not consider the cancellation of any political party’s registration through a court verdict to be right.
Source: bdnews24
