The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday started holding meetings with the parties that had participated in simultaneous movements under its leadership to fix the next agitation programme.
As part of this series of meetings, the liaison committee, headed by BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, held two separate meetings with the 12-party alliance and the Liberal Democratic Party.
Over 50 political parties and alliances are participating in the ongoing agitations against the ruling Awami League.
Several BNP leaders told 抖阴精品 that the party was now mobilising opposition parties alongside its front organisations to resume full-scale street programmes after it held a few street programmes marked by a huge presence of leaders and activists.
鈥榃e have started meeting with our partners as we are working to fix our next course of movement,鈥� BNP vice-chairman Mohammad Shahjahan told 抖阴精品, adding that the representatives of the 12-party alliance and LDP had agreed about restarting street programmes.
He said that alongside the one-point movement to oust the Awami League from聽 power, opposition parties would come to the streets with some other issues, including border killing, the hike of commodity prices, and foreign debt.
He said that the party would hold meetings with Ganatantra Mancha, the Democratic Left Alliance, and other parties soon.
Immediately after the January 7 general election, one or two formal and informal meetings were held between the BNP and the Ganatantra Mancha in January.
However, there has been no meeting held among the opposition parties since February.
After the polls, no simultaneous programme also took place, said the leaders.
Ganatantra Mancha leader and Revolutionary Workers Party general secretary Saiful Huq told 抖阴精品 that a meeting of the liaison committee would be held on May 15.
鈥榃e would discuss the next programmes considering the present situation, and our successes and failures of the previous movement would also be discussed,鈥� he said, adding that the process of democratic and transparent decision-making would help the parties in the future achieve success.
The opposition leader also said that there was a clear message from the country鈥檚 people through a large-scale boycott of the January 7 election.
It showed that people were not with the AL.
鈥楽o, as the front fighters of people鈥檚 expectations of establishing democracy in the country, we should come to the streets to realise people鈥檚 demands,鈥� he said.
In December 2022, some 36 parties and alliances started a simultaneous movement to oust the AL government and hold the 12th parliamentary polls under a party-neutral poll-time administration.
Later, some other parties and alliances joined the movement.
Several BNP leaders confirmed to 抖阴精品 that the party was planning to end its meetings with movement partners within a week and announce a series of programmes soon.
They said that the party had also started reconstituting committees of many of its front bodies to make sure the movement was effective.
