The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will sit in a meeting with her party’s policymaking body today to review the current political situation and determine the next course of action for restoration of the election-time ‘non-party’ government.
The meeting of the BNP national standing committee will start at Khaleda’s Gulshan office at 8:30pm.
The meeting is considered ‘crucial’ as it has to take a decision to draw up a plan for the ‘final phase’ of the movement to realise the demand for caretaker government, a member of the standing committee said.
The issue of the High Court order declaring illegal the Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration with the Election Commission will also come up for discussion.
Besides, the meeting takes place at a time when the International Crimes Tribunal is expected to deliver the verdict against BNP standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury any day. The meeting will also discuss the matter, the party sources said.
The standing committee meeting was last held on June 8 before the elections to Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal city corporations.
After holding the meeting with the standing committee, Khaleda Zia will sit with the leaders of the 18-party alliance at her Gulshan office on Sunday to ‘finalise’ the opposition’s next programmes.
Chairman of Islami Oikya Jote, a partner of the alliance, told New Age that the meeting would discuss the movement plan as the government’s
tenure was nearing an end.
-With New Age input
