BNP on 'mission win back'

The main opposition chooses to invite old timers who severed ties with the party due to differences.

bdnews24.com
Published : 12 July 2011, 02:35 PM
Updated : 12 July 2011, 02:35 PM
Dhaka, July 12 (bdnews24.com) β€” BNP would leave no stone unturned, including wooing long fallen out party members, in their bid to broaden the ally base.
In the latest instance, the party has gone ahead to invite Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Bikalpadhara to its Wednesday's mass hunger strike.
Invitation letters were sent to the two parties on Tuesday night.
BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and vice-president Sadek Hossain Khoka took the letter to Bikalpadhara chief A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury at his Baridhara residence around 10:30pm.
They later went to party chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office. But neither spoke to the press about any of the meetings.
LDP president Oli Ahmed is currently in Thailand. Party's joint secretary-general Shahadat Hossain told bdnews24.com he had talked to Fakhrul and Khoka.
"We have decided to express our solidarity with the BNP's mass hunger strike tomorrow [Wednesday]," he said.
Badruddoza resigned from the president's office, facing impeachment in a BNP majority parliament in June 2002.
The BNP founder secretary-general then formed Bikalpadhara in August that year.
Following a long dissent with the party over the alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, Col Oli resigned in 2006.
Known as an old friend of founder Ziaur Rahman, Oli first joined Bikalpadhara, but later formed LDP. The former BNP minister was elected from Chittagong in the 2008 elections.
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