Khaleda to lead BNP delegation

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday sent the list of its 10-member delegation to Bangabhaban for talks with the president, Abdul Hamid, scheduled for December 18 on the reconstitution of the Election Commission.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told New Age that party chairperson Khaleda Zia would lead the delegation in the talks at the invitation from the president.
Rizvi said that BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir wasalso named for the delegation.
He said that other members of the delegation were from the party’s standing committee members.
Standing committee members Moudud Ahmed, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Jamiruddin Sircar were also named for the delegation, party sources said.
A team of BNP leaders, including office secretaries Taiful Islam Tipu, Munir Hossain and Belal Ahmed, carried the list of the delegation to Bangabhaban at about noon.
President Abdul Hamid on Monday initiated a move to hold talks with registered political parties on the reconstitution of the commission and invited five parties including BNP to separate talks in the first phase.
The series of talks with the registered political parties would start with BNP that was invited to Bangabhaban on December 18.
The invitation letter from Bangabhaban which reached BNP office on Tuesday requested BNP to send a list of its 10-member delegation to Bangbhaban by Thursday.
The president also invited to separate meetings the Jatiya Party faction led by HM Ershad, on December 20, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Krishak Sramik Janata League on December 21 and the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction led by information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on December 22.
On December 6, Rizvi and BNP vice-chairman Ruhul Alam Chowdhury handed over to the assistant military secretary to the president two copies of Khaleda’s proposals as the party failed to get an appointment with the president.
Khaleda made the proposals for the reconstitution of the commission based on consensus through a search committee to be formed on the basis of consensus among the registered political parties. She unveiled the proposals at a hotel Westin in Dhaka on November 18 as the tenure of the chief election commissioner would expire in February 2017.
She suggested that the search committee would be formed with a retired chief justice, as its convener, and a retired judge of the Appellate Division, a retired secretary, an educationist or a widely respected eminent citizen and a widely respected senior woman, as its members.

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