The government tries to divert the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s anti-government movement to election canvass and the recent announcement of prime minister Sheikh Hasina over the next general election was nothing but a political tactic, observed several BNP leaders in a meeting on Tuesday.
They shared their thoughts with the party’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman during the meeting held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office where Tarique was virtually connected.
The meeting was held as part of the party’s series of meetings with central leaders to work out their next courses of action ahead of next general election.
BNP policymakers sat in a closed-door meeting with the party’s vice-chairmen and advisory council members on Tuesday.
Several members who participated in the meeting told New Age that most of the participants gave opinion to make an ‘all-out movement plan’ because there was no hope of fair election under any partisan government.
They said that massive movement was the only way to achieve a non-party electiontime government and an acceptable election commission.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with standing committee members participated in the meeting to take opinions of the party’s vicechairmen and the chairperson’s advisers about strengthening the party’s organisational capacity.
BNP organising secretary Syed Emran Saleh Prince told reporters that a total of 62 vice-chairmen and advisers participated in the meeting.
BNP policymakers will hold a meeting with the party’s senior joint secretaries general, secretaries general, organising secretaries and assistant organising secretaries on Wednesday and another with leaders of different associate bodies on Thursday.
BNP formed a 502-member national executive committee, including 35 vicechairmen, through its sixth national council session on March 19, 2016.
There are 74 members in the advisory council.
