Khaleda meets Kader Siddique to discuss national unity

After the government's refusal to her call for forge national unity against militancy, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has met Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique.

The meeting to discuss ways to launch a united national front started at Khaleda's house in Gulshan at 8pm on Thursday.
 
Kader was accompanied by his wife and KSJL Presidium Member Nasrin siddique, General Secretary Habibur Rahman and organising secretaries Iqbal Siddique and Shafiqul Islam.
 
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Tariqul Islam, and Vice-Chairmen Hafizuddin Ahmed and Abdullah Al Noman were with Khaleda.
 
The BNP chief had launched the appeal after terrorists killed at least 22 persons in an attack on a cafe in Gulshan last month.
 
Awami League has brushed aside the call, saying a national unity has already been forged and there is no need to include ‘terrorists’ in it, in a veiled reference to deadly protests by BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
 
Since then, the BNP has been trying to form a new alliance by keeping Jamaat and other Islamist parties out.
 
The BNP has got in touch with the KSJL, Ganaforum, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD).
 
Khaleda has invited the leaders of these parties to tea to discuss ways to create the new alliance.
 
The BNP formed a four-party alliance with Jamaat before the 2001 general elections. 
 
It became a 20-Party Alliance before the 2014 election.