Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, also the leader of the opposition in parliament, has convened an emergency meeting of the party's top policymaking body, the national standing committee, this night.
Khaleda's press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan told New Age that the meeting was convened at 8:30pm at the BNP chief's Gulshan office.
The meeting follows the cabinet's approval of the recommendations made by the special committee on constitution amendment. Maruf said the latest political situation of the country would top the meeting's agenda and might determine the party's next course of action.
Senior BNP leaders, however, ruled out any possibility of the party's joining the parliament at the call of the ruling alliance and the prime minister.
Monday's cabinet meeting also endorsed the special committee's proposal for dropping the provisions for caretaker government from the constitution.
The BNP and its allies have been opposing and protesting the move and enforced two countrywide general strikes including a 36-hour one.
Source : New Age
