Khaleda rebukes inactive leaders: Calls to gear up movement
UNB, Dhaka :
BNP has decided to intensify its anti-government movement with tougher programmes on completion of the party’s ongoing mass campaign outside the capital amid its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s growing frustration over her party leaders’ uninspiring role.
The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP standing committee members on Thursday night held with Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office, a party standing committee member told UNB wishing anonymity.
The nearly one and a half hours’ meeting that began around 9:20pm elaborately discussed various issues, including the party’s movement strategy and progress of its reorganisation process.
Meeting sources said, Khaleda was very aggressive at the meeting and blasted members of the BNP standing committee, the highest policymaking body of the party, for their inaction over intensifying the anti-government movement and strengthening the party activities.
She also voiced her utter annoyance over the failure of party’s Dhaka city unit to boost up its activities and strength it to counter the government’s repressive acts.
“The government didn’t allow us to hold a rally in Dhaka on November 8, but you couldn’t do anything in counter, rather played a silent role,” a policymaker quoted a frustrated Khaleda Zia as telling the meeting.
Khaleda also told the policymakers, “You’re also not vocal against the government’s widespread corruption, not even in talk-shows.”
She asked them to play a proactive role in carrying out a strong anti-government campaign.
The BNP chief reiterated that the party made a blunder by halting its anti-government movement just after the January-5 elections.
BNP has decided to intensify its anti-government movement with tougher programmes on completion of the party’s ongoing mass campaign outside the capital amid its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s growing frustration over her party leaders’ uninspiring role.
The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP standing committee members on Thursday night held with Khaleda Zia in the chair at her Gulshan office, a party standing committee member told UNB wishing anonymity.
The nearly one and a half hours’ meeting that began around 9:20pm elaborately discussed various issues, including the party’s movement strategy and progress of its reorganisation process.
Meeting sources said, Khaleda was very aggressive at the meeting and blasted members of the BNP standing committee, the highest policymaking body of the party, for their inaction over intensifying the anti-government movement and strengthening the party activities.
She also voiced her utter annoyance over the failure of party’s Dhaka city unit to boost up its activities and strength it to counter the government’s repressive acts.
“The government didn’t allow us to hold a rally in Dhaka on November 8, but you couldn’t do anything in counter, rather played a silent role,” a policymaker quoted a frustrated Khaleda Zia as telling the meeting.
Khaleda also told the policymakers, “You’re also not vocal against the government’s widespread corruption, not even in talk-shows.”
She asked them to play a proactive role in carrying out a strong anti-government campaign.
The BNP chief reiterated that the party made a blunder by halting its anti-government movement just after the January-5 elections.