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Says Khaleda; warns against plot to split BNP ahead of polls; listens to leaders' views on DCC polls, Tarique's return, graft allegations
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night said her party would go for a “one-point oust-government movement” if the caretaker government system was not reinstated by June 10.
Reiterating that the opposition would not participate in the next general election without the caretaker system in place, she said tougher programmes would be announced from a grand rally in the capital on June 11 to force the government to quit power.
Warning the leaders not to be party to any conspiracy to split the BNP ahead of the election, Khaleda said, “Be careful….don't walk into any trap.”
She was delivering her concluding speech at the closed-door session of the BNP national executive committee meeting at the Diploma Engineers Institute auditorium.
Criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, the BNP chief said Ershad should quit politics while Hasina may leave the country as “she has looted huge sums and all her relatives are staying abroad”, the meeting sources said.
About party nominations for the general election, she said only the parliamentary board would take decisions in this regard. “The board can even drop my name from the list of nominees. But everyone must obey the decisions,” she added.
The leader of the opposition, however, did not make any comments about the upcoming
About the pending committees of the party's different units and associated bodies, she said they would be declared within two months.
The meeting sources said some 46 leaders spoke at the closed-door session that began around noon and ended at 11:00pm.
BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir delivered the welcome address at the meeting, presided over by Khaleda Zia.
It was the third meeting since the 386-member executive committee was formed in December 2009. It first met on July 31, 2010, and then on April 23 last year.
Addressing the morning session yesterday, Khaleda said that “some harmful changes” had been made to the country's constitution through the 15th amendment. “If voted back to power, BNP will scrap the amendment,” she added.
She claimed the government brought the changes to the constitution before getting the full text of the court verdict on the caretaker government system. “And they [government] did so even though the court suggested the next two parliamentary elections might be held under caretaker governments.”
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