Badruddoza to form convening committee
Staff Correspondent
Former president Badruddoza Chowdhury is likely to form a 21-member convening committee next week, as a run-up to his move to launch a civil society platform to fight corruption and crime.The committee members after scrutinising political strategies will float Badruddoza's political party by this month. Sources close to Badruddoza told The Daily Star last night that the committee will comprise two front-line ruling BNP leaders, two former ministers of the Awami League, also retired army officers, two former secretaries, one renowned journalist and some dissident BNP leaders. The former president, also founding secretary general of the BNP, stood down from presidency following deterioration of relations with the party in 2002. He has triggered political speculations by publicly criticising the rise in corruption and crime during the first half of the BNP rule.
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