The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League president, Kader Siddiq, on Saturday held talks with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, and conveyed his reservations about Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, which is a partner of the BNP-led alliance, in the formation of a greater platform in against the government.
After the meeting with
Khaleda in her office at Gulshan, Siddiq told reporters that he would make public his position after the meeting with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the Awami League.
Siddiq said that at the meeting he had expressed his reservations about working with the BNP as its alliance has a party which opposed the country's independence.
He also said that the party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, remained in leadership role in the BNP-led alliance.
'There are some problems in working with the BNP as the party which opposed the country's independence is yet to apologise for their role,' Siddiq said at a joint press briefing after the meeting that continued for about an hour.
The BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that they had held a discussion and would hold further discussions to reach an understanding.
Siddiq said that he had not differed with Khaleda on the BNP's ongoing movement to push for the reinstatement of the caretaker government provision in the constitution. He added that he had agreed with her on this point.
There are many similarities in movements now being carried out by the BNP and his party and he went to the BNP office with this in mind.
Asked whether his party will carry out simultaneous movements with the BNP, Kader said there were similarities between the programmes of his party and those of the BNP but he would make the decision later. He said that he would continue holding discussions with Khaleda.
Fakhrul Islam said that the meeting was held as part of Khaleda's call for all political parties and individuals for unity to push for the cancellation of the 15th amendment.
Siddiq's wife Nasrin Kader Siddiq, the party's general secretary Habibur Rahman Talukder and organising secretary Kamaluddin Ahmed, among others, accompanied him. Kader presented Khaleda with a gamchha.
As part of the BNP's efforts to float a greater platform to expedite the anti-government movement, Fakhrul on Tuesday met Siddiq at his residence at Mohammadpur.
Siddiq later said that he had agreed to join talks with Khaleda on how to overcome the 'current crisis of the country.'
Siddiq, a former Awami League man, held another meeting with a delegation of the Awami League two days later when he accepted an invitation to meet his 'sister Hasina.'
Fakhrul also met Oli Ahmed of the Liberal Democratic Party and AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury of Bikalpadhara in June to take them along in the anti-government programmes.
The Liberal Democratic Party joined the BNP's mass hunger strike. But Bikalpadhara representatives not attend.
The LDP and the BNP on Wednesday reached a consensus on issues such as the repeal of the 15th amendment to the constitution.
Soruce : New Age
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