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Policymakers not engaged in preparing BNP’s Vision 2030

Local May 04, 2017

Bangladesh Nationalist Party policymakers are not engaged in the preparation of the party’s Vision 2030, now on the final stage.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to place the full version of Vision 2030 before the nation in the first week of May, party leaders said.
Party sources said that a member of BNP standing committee, highest policymaking body of the party, along with some pro-BNP professionals, including former bureaucrats, were preparing the full-fledged Vision 2030.
When contacted, the standing committee member admitted that he was in the driving seat of preparation of the complete Vision 2030 but asked anonymity.
A former Dhaka University teacher, reportedly engaged in preparing the charter, did not want to be mentioned.
Many BNP leaders are discontented as senior party leaders who have experienced in politics and running the government have not been engaged in preparing the Vision 2030, the party leaders said.
BNP standing committee member Jamiruddin Sircar, also former speaker, said that he was not engaged in preparing the charter.
BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain avoided a direct answer when asked whether he was engaged in preparing the charter.
He said that when the standing committee would approve Vision 2030 it would be the property of the standing committee.
Khaleda Zia unveiled the essence of Vision 2030 at the inaugural session of BNP’s sixth national council session on March 19, 2016.
She had stated that they would prepare detail planning and implementation process of the charter and would place it before the nation after finalising it.
She that BNP’s future election manifesto would be based on the Vision 2030.
She unveiled the essence of Vision 2030 pledging to balance the powers of the president and the prime minister and to establish a bicameral parliament through necessary amendment to the constitution.
Maintaining the unitary nature of the constitution, the existing parliamentary system would be reformed establishing an upper house of the parliament with representation from different communities, marginalised groups and knowledgeable and gifted people from different professions, Khaleda said.
She said BNP would run the state ensuring effective participation of the people and honouring the expectations of the people based on opinions of civil society, mass media and experts, opinion polls and hopes and aspiration of the people.
BNP believes that democracy and development are not mutually exclusive but complementary to each other, the BNP chief said.
She said that they wanted to combine 3Gs –– good policy, good governance and good government.
She stated that BNP wanted to strive to develop Bangladesh as a modern democratic and high-middle income country with $5,000 per capita income by 2030.
Some senior leaders were against the bicameral parliament, the party sources said.
Many of the party leaders thought that opportunist professionals favoured the option to enjoy and misuse power, the sources said.
BNP standing committee member Amir Khoshru Mahmud Chowdhury said that the Vision 2030 was a research-based charter.
He said that the party’s research cell was preparing it.
Amir Khosru said that the charter was on the final stage and would be placed before standing committee before making it public.
Another standing committee member said that he was not engaged in the preparation of the charter.
The member who was minister in previous governments of BNP said such a charter was also prepared in 1995 while the party was in power.
Some BNP senior leaders expressed their resentment saying that they were field activists and had no far-sightedness but experts only deserved it.
BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said that he was not engaged in the formulation of Vision 2030.
He said that he did not know who were preparing the charter and added that he would know about the charter if it was placed before the standing committee.
‘Before that I have no interest to know about it,’ said Goyeshwar.
Most of the standing committee members hardly say anything negative if any pre-decided or pre-prepared matter is placed in the committee meeting, some standing committee members said.