The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is making preparations for an all-out movement against the government after Eid-ul-Fitr and, in addition to finding news allies, mobilising local units and front organisations by holding programmes amid in-party feuds at many levels.
The party is now focusing on issues of public sufferings such as soaring prices and power, gas and water shortage buts is prime focus is on the restoration of the caretaker government provision aimed at holding fair elections and mobilising public opinions against the 15th amendment to the constitution.
Party policymakers said that it had decided to wage a fully-fledged movement after Eid to overthrow the government. They said that they were yet to decide the pattern of the agitation programmes.
Some members on the party's standing committee
said that continued programmes such as demonstrations, rallies and road marches might be announced after Eid.
Despite claiming that they prefer peaceful programmes, the leaders said that tough programmes such as general strikes would be announce if the situation so warrants.
The party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that there was no doubt that the BNP would wage a tough movement after Eid. 'You will be informed of the programmes in time.'
Standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan said that they were discussing the mode of programmes they would announce after Ramadan. He said it might be decided after the party chief's return from Saudi Arabia after performing itiqaf at Ka'ba.
'Till then we are focusing on issues of public sufferings such as an abnormal increase in commodity prices amid declining buying capacity of the people. And there are severe shortage of power and water. As a responsible opposition party, we cannot ignore them,' he said.
Standing committee member Mahbubur Rahman said that the party's prime issue was to concentrate on the issue of the 15th amendment to the constitution. 'We are out on a movement to restore the caretaker government provision. And are welcome all democratic forces in the movement,' he said.
Mahbub said that they were communicating with some other parties about the issue. Three small parties have already sided with the BNP. He said that the unity of like-minded parties was based on issues.
'Elections are still far away. So we are not planning any electoral alliance right now,' he said.
The party is also focused on mobilising its local units and gear up activists as the local units and associate bodies were prime forces for the waging of a movement.
In June, 19 teams headed by standing committee members, vice-chairmen and chairpersons' advisers were sent to grass roots and many of them submitted reports to the acting secretary general.
After their month-long tour, the party is now monitoring the activities and performance of units in programmes announced centrally.
Despite such moves, in-party feuds continued in many local units and associate bodies.
The party's chairperson, Khaleda Zia, has formed a committee to resolve disputes in Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, which is considered the BNP's prime force in waging movement, after a dissident group had ransacked its office centring on the feuds.
A senior leader, as an example, pointed to feuds in Barisal. 'The feuding factions even cannot tolerate each other. They are holding regular programmes separately and often get involved in violence,' he said, adding that similar situation was there in some more units.
Source : New Age
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