The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, is planning to exchange views with the party’s grassroots level activists after her road-march programme.
Khaleda Zia, also the leader of the opposition, is planning to meet presidents, general secretaries and organising secretaries of the party’s district, upazila and municipality units to make up for the organisational loss caused by non-holding of grassroots representatives’ councils, a programme launched by her son Tarique Rahman, a top leader of the party told New Age recently.
The grassroots level leaders will be invited to Dhaka in phases and Khaleda will take their views on the ways to strengthen the party and next course of action in its anti-government campaign. She will also ask the local level leaders to remove their differences.
After becoming the senior joint secretary general of BNP in 2002, Tarique Rahman, now the senior vice-chairman of the party, had started holding grassroots representatives’ conferences to gear up organisational activities across the country.
Party insiders said Khaleda wanted to continue her activism as well as to strengthen the party by holding organisational programmes instead of violent street agitation until a ‘final push’ to unseat the government.
‘Khaleda Zia will steer the party towards a better position to pave the way for Tarique’s return to the country before the next general election,’ said another senior leader.
‘The leader of the opposition during her countrywide road-march campaign is assessing the popular mood and their response to her call for a tougher anti-government movement, but she could not yet discuss organisational matters with the grassroots level leaders,’ he said.
‘Against this backdrop,’ he said, ‘the chairperson
has decided to exchange views with the local leaders.’
Khaleda has already led road-marches to Sylhet, Bogra and Chapainawabganj and is scheduled to lead another road-march to Khulna on November 26.
She will conclude the programme by leading a road march to the port city of Chittagong possibly in December.
Khaleda is also likely to address rallies in Rangpur or Dinajpur and in Barisal.
Party insiders said Khaleda’s countrywide campaign was aimed at rallying support for its demand for mid-term polls by projecting the government ‘failures’ in containing prices, slide in law and order and reining in share market gamblers, its top leaders said.
The BNP chief would give a clear message to the government that the party would not contest elections without restoration of the caretaker government system.
Source: New Age
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