Meeting with Khaleda focused on BNP's poll participation
Commerce and Education Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur yesterday said his recent meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia focused on participation of her party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
“It was basically part of our continued contact to maintain an atmosphere of trust among ourselves. We must all be confident,” he told reporters at his secretariat office.
The adviser had a parley with Khaleda at her cantonment house last Friday as her party still remains undecided as to whether or not to go to the polls and raised various demands for creating congenial situation for the election.
He described the beginning of political parties' registration as a big step toward participation in the elections, now slated for December 18.
“Doubt and uncertainty is our all-time companion. We're gradually overcoming this. We don't want to involve ourselves in unnecessary debates,” said the adviser, who works as spokesman for the government in negotiations with the political parties.
He hoped that there would be reflection of everybody's good thinking in the future and “our formal or informal contacts will be maintained”.
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