BNP to come up with ‘package movement’

BNP high command has decided to intensify their efforts -- continuing ongoing movement and fighting a legal battle -- to ensure release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The party said it will come up with a “package movement” within four weeks.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement yesterday, following a meeting of party’s national standing committee -- its apex policymaking body -- at Khaleda’s Gulshan office.

“We have decided to intensify our ongoing movement immediately to ensure release of our party chief. The meeting also decided to go for a legal battle,” Fakhrul said.

On June 22, BNP also took a decision that they would wage a movement across the country to ensure Khaleda’s release.

At yesterday’s meeting, party leaders discussed various issues including the prevailing political situation, Barguna’s Rifat Sharif murder and present crisis in its student front Jatiyabadi Chhatra Dal.

Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman joined the meeting through videoconferencing from London.

Asked about current setback in JCD, Fakhrul said BNP has given authority to some leaders to solve it.

Replying to a query about the Liberation War affairs minister’s  call in the parliament to remove Ziaur Rahman’s grave from its premises, Fakhrul said it is a sign that the government has become politically bankrupt.