Bangladesh News

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said party leaders have been assigned to draw up the polls strategy, and taskforce-like sub-committees have been formed to prepare party plans for building the country.

Urging leaders and workers to do constructive politics, she said she and her party would work for the people after winning the election.

“We have to do a lot of work and we all have to do constructive politics for the welfare of the people and the party,” Khaleda told leaders and workers of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal, a front organisation of the BNP.

She was addressing a meeting of Krishak Dal at her Gulshan office, her first address to a party meeting after being released from jail on September 11.

”The country went close to a great disaster in the last two years and now you have to go forward with the slogan ’save the people, save the country’,” the former premier said, adding that the country has to be saved from the ongoing food crisis.

“No one will be able to destroy the BNP or the nationalistic forces through conspiracy. The people are with us,” she told Krishak Dal leaders at the brief meeting.

BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Krishak Dal General Secretary Shamsuzzaman Dudu, among others, were present at the meeting chaired by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting president of Krishak Dal.

Earlier, Khaleda exchanged views with party leaders of various levels from across the country for about four hours. She instructed them to work in unison for the coming election.

“We are in favour of election and we want to participate in it,” former BNP lawmaker Rahimuddin Bharasha quoted Khaleda as saying.

Replying to a question, Nazrul Islam Khan, BNP joint secretary general, said agenda of the party’s dialogue with the government is yet to be finalised.

Meanwhile, Khandaker Delwar and Nazrul Islam Khan held a closed door meeting with the party chief yesterday afternoon, sources said.

Details could not be known.

Others who met Khaleda on the day included former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, former state minister Mahmudur Rahman, party leaders Selima Rahman and senior journalist Shafik Rehman.