BANGLADESH

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has decided to join all anti-government movements of opposition BNP.

President Oli Ahmed, who is now in the US, in a statement Monday night directed the leaders and activists of his party to attend Tuesday rally of Khaleda Zia.

In the statement, signed by party joint-secretary general Shahadat Hossain Selim, Oli said from Tuesday, LDP will join all the anti-government programmes announced by the BNP chairperson.

BNP is scheduled to hold a rally the road in front of its Naya Paltan headquarters in the city where Khaleda is set to spell out fresh agitation programmes for realising its demands including restoration of caretaker government system for holding general elections.

Oli said: "The people want freedom from the misrule. There is no rule of law in the country."

BNP has recently initiated a move to bring like-minded political parties together for launching a movement especially for reinstating the caretaker government system.

Oli, a founding member of BNP, left the party along with 13 other BNP lawmakers and floated LDP on Oct 26 in 2006, a day before the then BNP government completed its tenure. He blamed the BNP leadership for corruption and misrule.

LDP later sided with the Awami League but contested the general elections separately and won one parliamentary seat.