20-party decides to support BNP in Dhaka city polls
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 20-Party Alliance on Friday decided to extend its support to the BNP nominated candidates in the upcoming mayoral elections to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation.
The alliance coordinator and BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the decision in the evening after a meeting of the alliance at BNP chairperson’s office at Gulshan in the capital.
No representative of Jamaat-e-Islami, a major component of the alliance was present in the meeting, said leaders of three alliance partners who joined the meeting.
Asked why none of Jamaat joined the meeting, Nazrul said that they were staying out of Dhaka.
Nazrul said that the alliance decided to hold a discussion in Dhaka on December 30 denouncing the December 30, 2018 national elections as the ruling party and its alliance candidates were made winners through rigging the election.
Besides, the alliance decided to observe the golden jubilee of the independence of the country from March 26, 2020 to March 26, 2021, he said.
He said that the meeting condemned the attack on Dhaka University Central Students’ Union vice-president Nurul Huq Nur and demanded exemplary punishment for the attackers and condemned attack on Daily Sangram office and its editor Abul Asad.
The BNP leader said that the alliance meeting denounced the comments of Indian home minister Amit Shah and external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, involving BNP and its chairperson Khaleda Zia, while placing Citizenship Amendment Bill in Indian parliament recently.
Presided over by Kazi Zafar-faction of Jatiya Party chairman Mostafa Jamal Haider, the meeting was attended, among others by, Liberal Democratic Party faction secretary general Redwan Ahmed, other faction member secretary Shahadot Hossain Selim, Labour Party chairman Mustafizur Rahman Iran, Kalyan Party vice-chairman Mahmud Khan and Bangladesh Jatiya Dal chairman Ehsanul Huda.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
