The Bangladesh Nationalist Party will continue the legacy of its simultaneous movement with like-minded political parties and remain united in the country’s democratic transition, said party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said.
Khasru on Monday stated that the political parties that had participated in the simultaneous movements alongside the BNP and jointly protested against autocracy were continuing that legacy and it would remain in the days ahead.
He said that after the next election they would, in addition to forming a new government, work to institutionalise democracy and implement their 31-point reform proposal for the country’s democratic future together.
Khasru made the remarks following a meeting with the leaders of the Gana Forum at the BNP chair’s office at Gulshan in the capital.
The BNP on Sunday began discussions with its like-minded parties and partners in the simultaneous movements to apprise them of the outcome of the meeting between interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and BNP acting chair Tarique Rahman in London on June 13.
Khasru said that the talks of holding the next Jatiya Sangsad elections in the first half of February after the London meeting were positively received by the people, with previous public doubts going away as the nation moved towards the electoral process.
‘The nation has now entered the electoral path. We are all moving towards the elections together, united in our commitment to restore and institutionalise democracy, establish the political and constitutional rights of the people and build a new Bangladesh,’ he said.
An eleven-member Gana Forum delegation, led by presidium members Subrata Chowdhury and SM Altaf Hossain, attended the meeting.
Gana Forum general secretary Md Mizazur Rahman said that the London meeting helped clear the uncertainties surrounding the electoral process and democratic transition in Bangladesh.
He added that the Gana Forum expressed gratitude to the BNP, its acting chair, and other leaders for facilitating a smoother path towards a democratic transition through the meeting.
In the evening, Khasru held another meeting with National Democratic Movement chair Bobby Hajjaj.
Earlier on Sunday night, the BNP held a meeting with the leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha.
At the meeting, Khasru discussed the contents of the London meeting with the leaders of the platform.
The Ganatantra Mancha leaders present in the meeting included the platform’s coordinator Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu, Nagorik Oikya president Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh general secretary Saiful Haque, Ganosamhati Andolan chief coordinator Zonayed Saki, among others.