UNB, Dhaka :
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened an urgent meeting of her party’s standing committee on Saturday as a court here fixed date for pronouncing verdict in a graft case filed against her.
The meeting of the BNP policy-making body is scheduled to begin around 8:30pm at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told UNB on Friday.
He said, the meeting will discuss the country’s overall political situation and latest developments.
A BNP standing committee member wishing anonymity said they will mainly discuss the issues relating to the probable court verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and work out the party’s next course of action.
He said they will elaborately discuss the possible measures to face any evolving political situation if their chairperson is ‘unlawfully’ convicted. “It’ll be a very crucial meeting, and we may take ta decision to launch a decisive movement if our chairperson is deprived of justice,” the BNP leader said.
On Thursday, the Special Court-5 in Dhaka fixed February 8 to deliver verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda and five others. On August 8, 2011, the commission filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon Police Station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power in raising funds for the trust from unknown sources. Hours after the court fixed date for delivering verdict, BNP senior leaders warned that their party will take to the streets with strong agitation programmes if Khaleda is illegitimately convicted. Khaleda will be disqualified for the next general election if she is convicted in the case.
On Thursday, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir feared that the verdicts in graft case will be pronounced ‘as per the Prime Minister’s desire’.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened an urgent meeting of her party’s standing committee on Saturday as a court here fixed date for pronouncing verdict in a graft case filed against her.
The meeting of the BNP policy-making body is scheduled to begin around 8:30pm at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told UNB on Friday.
He said, the meeting will discuss the country’s overall political situation and latest developments.
A BNP standing committee member wishing anonymity said they will mainly discuss the issues relating to the probable court verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and work out the party’s next course of action.
He said they will elaborately discuss the possible measures to face any evolving political situation if their chairperson is ‘unlawfully’ convicted. “It’ll be a very crucial meeting, and we may take ta decision to launch a decisive movement if our chairperson is deprived of justice,” the BNP leader said.
On Thursday, the Special Court-5 in Dhaka fixed February 8 to deliver verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda and five others. On August 8, 2011, the commission filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon Police Station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power in raising funds for the trust from unknown sources. Hours after the court fixed date for delivering verdict, BNP senior leaders warned that their party will take to the streets with strong agitation programmes if Khaleda is illegitimately convicted. Khaleda will be disqualified for the next general election if she is convicted in the case.
On Thursday, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir feared that the verdicts in graft case will be pronounced ‘as per the Prime Minister’s desire’.
