The political allies of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party want national elections by 2025. They have also asked the BNP to immediately plan a programme to press home their demands that include holding the next national elections by 2025.
The suggestions came on Saturday from dialogues between the BNP and its allies in which the leaders of the 12-Party Alliance, Jatiyatabadi Samamona Jote, and Labour Party met with the BNP liaison committee.
The dialogues were held as part of the series started from the day between the BNP and its allies at the party chairperson鈥檚 office in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan.
On the day, a delegation from the Liberal Democratic Party was also scheduled to meet with the BNP leaders, but the meeting was rescheduled.
The BNP allies said that a programme was imperative to exert political pressure on the interim government聽 for holding the elections by 2025.
When asked, LDP chairman and also spokesperson for the 12-Party Alliance Shahadat Hossain Selim told 抖阴精品, 鈥楳ost of the leaders of our alliance gave opinions at the meeting in favour of holding the next election by next year.鈥�
鈥榃e are in favour of a quick election to thwart conspiracies centring the election which may delay the polls,鈥� Selim said.
The election is possible by June 2025 if the interim government had the good will, he added.
Another leader, preferring anonymity, of the alliance said, 鈥楨veryone during the dialogue said that the next election should be held by 2025. We simply do not want it to be delayed to 2026.鈥�
鈥楾he BNP believes that conspiracies are in the making to create instability in the country as they are monitoring the situation. At this meeting we had initial discussions to give a programme on various issues, including elections and rising commodity prices,鈥� the leader said.
The final decision would come after discussions at the BNP standing committee meeting, the leader noted.
A member of the 12-party alliance, Jatiya Party (Kazi Jafar) chairman Mustafa Jamal Haider said that had a long meeting with the BNP leaders.
鈥楧iscussions were held on what the political programme would be in the coming days. The programme will be finalised after discussions in the BNP standing committee meeting.鈥�
Noting that the need for unity had not yet ended, he said 鈥榃e have been carrying out an anti-fascist movement for long and we are still united.鈥�
After the meeting with 12-party alliance, BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan told journalists that BNP would continue to work with other political parties in the future on the emerging political situation and contemporary issues of the country, as it had done in the past.
Noting that views were exchanged on the existing political situation at the meeting, he said that decisions would be taken at the BNP standing committee meeting and would be announced later.
BNP鈥檚 other partner in simultaneous movement, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, at a programme in Cumilla on the day also iterated its demand for next national elections by 2025.
BNP began a series of dialogue with like-minded political parties on the day by holding its first meeting with the 12-Party Alliance leaders in a bid to consolidate unity and seek their opinions on the next general election.
BNP liaison committee members, headed by party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, participated in the meeting.