The joint National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute Technical Assessment Mission publishes its report on the general election
“The BNP has a Standing Committee with about 19 members. Five of them are either dead or ailing. That leaves us 14. In these times of trouble, they do not even have one meeting a week with their chairperson,” he said at a discussion on Wednesday.
He mentioned that there was a recent meeting at which, according to reports that reached his ears, the members sat around like ‘newly-wed brides with their heads covered, facing their mother-in-law’.
“Unless this situation changes, our struggle for freedom is utopia,” he added.
Even after the National Council, the BNP has not formed a new Standing Committee. Recently, Chairperson Khaleda Zia had a meeting with the prevailing committee members.