Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will not launch a tough movement at this movement on the issue of non-party caretaker government. The party’s standing committee discussed the issue at a meeting held at the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan in the city on Saturday night. Begum Zia sat with the committee members to work out an action plan to force the government to restore the caretaker government system. The meeting, chaired by Khaleda Zia, began at 9:15 pm and ended at 11.30 pm.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, party standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, M Shamsul Islam, Tariqul Islam, Jamiruddin Sircar, Rafiqul Islam Miah, ASM Hannan Shah, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, MK Anwar and MA Gani attended the meeting.
At the meeting, Khaleda Zia heard the opinions and suggestions of her party’s policymakers as she will hold another meeting with the top leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance at her Gulshan office on Sunday night to finalise their next line of action to force the government to arrange the next polls under a non-party administration
Meeting sources said BNP wants to gain people’s support. For this reason the party will not declare any tough movement at this movement.
BNP will also watch the next parliamentary session that will start on October 12. Afterwards, it will take decision for next programme.
They also discussed about the party’s next national council and Representation of the People Order (RPO) issue.
BNP chairperson informed the party’s decision makers about her meeting with the US ambassador Dan W. Mozena.
Besides, the meeting decided that Begum Zia will tour different places of the country to invigorate the activists in the grass root level. For this reason she will sit with the newly formed 53 committees of the organisational district out of the 75 committees on Tuesday.
UNB adds: Opposition BNP at its standing committee meeting on Saturday night decided to pursue soft programmes until mid-September to push for its demand for caretaker government system as it wants not to squander its public support with violent programmes. “We want go ahead with soft programmes like holding rallies, demonstrations and carrying out mass campaign…we’re now preferring a go-slow policy,” a party leader told UNB after meeting.
Meeting sources said before going for the decisive movement, the party policymakers decided to carry out mass campaign across the country to increase people’s involvement with their anti-government agitations.
Party senior leaders will make district-level tours soon to this end. BNP chief Khaleda Zia will also visits some districts and hold public meetings there to mobilise more public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
“The BNP chief will visit different districts and the central leaders will carry out mass campaign at district levels,” party standing committee member Tariqul Islam told reporters after the meeting. The standing committee members agreed to go for the final movement from October with harsher programmes if the government does not concede to their demand, the sources said.
-With The Independent input
