The caretaker government issue must be discussed first to make the
president's Election Commission talks fruitful, opposition chief Khaleda
Zia has said on Sunday.
"The president is above all. We respect him and so, will attend the talks," she said at a students' gathering on the occasion of 33rd anniversary of the party's student wing Chhatra Dal at the city's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
"We want to clearly tell the president, keep the caretaker government issue in the front for a free and fair election ... elections under a partisan government will not be impartial," she added.
The BNP chief demanded that the caretaker issue must be first discussed and then the EC.
President Zillur Rahman is holding dialogues with the political parties represented in parliament on forming the new EC, as the incumbent commission finishes its tenure in the middle of the February. Zillur started sitting with the parties from Dec 22.
After receiving the president's invitation on Dec 26 to attend the talks scheduled for Jan 11, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been saying that they would let the president know that BNP would not join the next general elections if the caretaker government is not reinstated.
The main opposition has been protesting the government's decision taken on June 30 last year to annul the caretaker provision through the 15th amendment to the constitution. They have been demanding the system's reinstatement since then.
NEW COMMITTEE
The BNP chairperson at Sunday's programme said that a new committee for the party's student wing Chhatra Dal would be announced this year.
"A committee staying too long in power obstructs the way of leadership. Preparations to elect leaders at every level should be taken. I have asked the student affairs secretary to give a new committee as the new year gift," she said.
Tenure of the Chhatra Dal central committee expired in January last year. Leaders and activists have been demanding for the new committee since then.
Chhatra Dal begun Sunday's programme with placing wreaths on the grave of the late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman in the morning.
Khaleda inaugurated the programme by releasing balloons and pigeons after arriving at the venue at 3:15pm.
Chhatra Dal president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku presided over the programme where BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul, joint secretary general Amanullah Aman, standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed and organising secretary Fazlul Haque Milon also spoke among others.
"The president is above all. We respect him and so, will attend the talks," she said at a students' gathering on the occasion of 33rd anniversary of the party's student wing Chhatra Dal at the city's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
"We want to clearly tell the president, keep the caretaker government issue in the front for a free and fair election ... elections under a partisan government will not be impartial," she added.
The BNP chief demanded that the caretaker issue must be first discussed and then the EC.
President Zillur Rahman is holding dialogues with the political parties represented in parliament on forming the new EC, as the incumbent commission finishes its tenure in the middle of the February. Zillur started sitting with the parties from Dec 22.
After receiving the president's invitation on Dec 26 to attend the talks scheduled for Jan 11, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been saying that they would let the president know that BNP would not join the next general elections if the caretaker government is not reinstated.
The main opposition has been protesting the government's decision taken on June 30 last year to annul the caretaker provision through the 15th amendment to the constitution. They have been demanding the system's reinstatement since then.
NEW COMMITTEE
The BNP chairperson at Sunday's programme said that a new committee for the party's student wing Chhatra Dal would be announced this year.
"A committee staying too long in power obstructs the way of leadership. Preparations to elect leaders at every level should be taken. I have asked the student affairs secretary to give a new committee as the new year gift," she said.
Tenure of the Chhatra Dal central committee expired in January last year. Leaders and activists have been demanding for the new committee since then.
Chhatra Dal begun Sunday's programme with placing wreaths on the grave of the late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman in the morning.
Khaleda inaugurated the programme by releasing balloons and pigeons after arriving at the venue at 3:15pm.
Chhatra Dal president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku presided over the programme where BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul, joint secretary general Amanullah Aman, standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed and organising secretary Fazlul Haque Milon also spoke among others.
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