BNP and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) yesterday agreed to forge a greater unity to face some key political issues including the latest amendment to the charter and scrapping of the caretaker government system.
The two parties also decided to form a six-member joint committee to work out the next course of action, to be finalised by the respective party chiefs.
The decision came from a meeting between Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and LDP President Oli Ahmad MP, held at the latter's residence in the city's Mohakhali.
All the democratic and nationalistic forces should be united considering the country's "critical situation," Oli said after the meeting and thanked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for taking the initiative for greater unity.
"Both BNP and LDP have opposed the latest amendment as the ruling party has made the country's charter a bio-data," mentioned Oli adding, "They introduced some inflexible provisions which are unacceptable to us."
He insisted the government must cancel the "one-sided and illegal" 15th amendment. The lawmaker hinted to go for an anti-government agitation to meet one-point demand.
Terming the meeting successful, Mirza Alamgir hoped the unity would soon lead the way to protest the 15th amendment and other wrongdoings of the government.
City BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka and LDP Secretary General Jahanara Begum were present in the meeting, among others.
BNP has recently initiated a move to bring like-minded political parties together for launching a movement especially for reinstating the caretaker government system.
Oli, a founding member of BNP, left the party along with 13 other BNP lawmakers and floated LDP on October 26 in 2006, a day before completion of the tenure of the then BNP-led four party alliance government. He blamed the BNP leadership for corruption and misrule.
LDP later sided with Awami League but contested the general election separately and won a parliamentary seat.
Source : The Daily Star
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