Staff Reporter :
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Monday vowed to take to the streets to restore democracy in the country.
The alliance leaders said that they will start their new political course of action over the contemporary issues, including the demand for release of BNP’s ailing chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said it after a meeting of the 20-party alliance at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.
Briefing reporters, he claimed that the unity of the 20-party alliance remain intact.
He admitted that there is some misunderstanding among the alliance partners but he expressed his optimism that they would be able to remove it through talks.
Replying to a question of desertion of Barrister Andaleev Rahman’s Bangladesh Jatiya Party from the 20-party alliance, he said they are communicating with him.
“We are hopeful that the misunderstandings among us would be ended through talks and we will work together again,” he said.
Nazrul, also chief coordinator of the 20-party alliance, said the meeting decided
to launch issue-based movement, including the release of jailed BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia.
He said the new course of action would be concentrate price hike of essentials, violence and repression of women and fair price of paddy.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir who was present at the meeting explained the situation in the wake of joining parliament by BNP lawmakers’ elect in violation of party’s previous decision, meeting sources said.
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Monday vowed to take to the streets to restore democracy in the country.
The alliance leaders said that they will start their new political course of action over the contemporary issues, including the demand for release of BNP’s ailing chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said it after a meeting of the 20-party alliance at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office.
Briefing reporters, he claimed that the unity of the 20-party alliance remain intact.
He admitted that there is some misunderstanding among the alliance partners but he expressed his optimism that they would be able to remove it through talks.
Replying to a question of desertion of Barrister Andaleev Rahman’s Bangladesh Jatiya Party from the 20-party alliance, he said they are communicating with him.
“We are hopeful that the misunderstandings among us would be ended through talks and we will work together again,” he said.
Nazrul, also chief coordinator of the 20-party alliance, said the meeting decided
to launch issue-based movement, including the release of jailed BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia.
He said the new course of action would be concentrate price hike of essentials, violence and repression of women and fair price of paddy.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir who was present at the meeting explained the situation in the wake of joining parliament by BNP lawmakers’ elect in violation of party’s previous decision, meeting sources said.
