BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night expressed deep resentment over senior party leaders' little participation in agitation programmes including hartal.
“It [the absence] must not be repeated. I will consider this during nominations in future elections,” sources quoted Khaleda as warning the party leaders. She made the comment at a close door meeting of the National Standing Committee, party's highest policy making forum, at her Gulshan office.
Following the standing committee meet, she also held a meeting with the leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and Khelafat Majlish, another BNP ally.
Jamaat Acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam, its Dhaka city unit chief Hamidur Rahman Azad, Khelafat Majlish chief Mohammad Ishaq and Secretary General Ahmed Abdul Kader represented the allies.
The main opposition, however, did not brief reporters about any of the meeting although they waited for a long time to cover the standing committee meeting.
Meeting sources said the standing committee finalised its next course of actions against the Awami League-led government, which might be announced at today's demonstration at Muktangon in the capital.
As per the decision, the party will hold rallies and processions in upazilas on December 5, in districts on December 7 and in all divisional headquarters on December 9.
Before the meeting started around 8:30pm, several hundred supporters of Nazmul Huda, the recently expelled party leader, staged a demonstration and formed a human chain demanding withdrawal of his expulsion.
On November 25, Huda, a two-time member of Khaleda's cabinet, appealed to reconsider the decision.
BNP standing committee on November 21 expelled him from the party for his “anti-organisational activities”. Huda, however, blamed pro-BNP lawyers who come from Noakhali including Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed for the expulsion.
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