The BNP will hold series of view exchange meetings with people from different sections of the society to know their opinion regarding the party’s course of action regarding the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Besides, the party is also planning its future course relating to its participation in the next general elections, according to party sources.
As part of the plan, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will hold a meeting with leaders from different professions at the party chairperson's Gulshan office at 4pm today. Senior party leaders will also join the meet.
Moreover, the BNP senior leaders will also hold meetings separately with teachers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, agriculturists and civil society members.
Meanwhile, Fakhrul Islam yesterday said the party will have no programme for the next three days upto Saturday. The next phase of party programmes will be announced from a briefing today, he added.
The BNP took the plan after its weeklong non-violent programmes, including rallies, human chains, sit-in demonstrations and hunger strikes, protesting the jailing of Khaleda and demanding her release.
Earlier in the day, BNP senior leaders held a meeting with European Parliament (EP) delegates at Gulshan yesterday.
The EP delegates want a participatory election, Fakhrul told reporters emerging from the meeting.
Regarding the recent meetings with foreign diplomats, Fakhrul said that the western countries have different norms and values about law and order issues, and they are observing the Bangladesh context.
“The Election Commission has asked the EP delegates to send representatives as election observers and they are yet to decide,”added Fakhrul.
Khaleda has been convicted for five years in the Zia orphanage trust graft case and currently she is being kept at the old jail at Nazimuddin Road in the capital.
The BNP terms the case false and fabricated and allege that Khaleda has been sent jail in a view to keeping her away from the upcoming general election.