Parties can seek permission to hold council meetings

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Country's political parties can seek permission from the government to hold council meetings to bring about reforms in the parties despite a ban on indoor politics, an adviser said Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com.
Communications Adviser MA Matin said the interim administration would give a positive thought to the matter to help implement the much-talked-about reforms.
"We'll consider if they come to us," Matin, a former army officer, told reporters in his office at the Secretariat. Matin's comment came a day after the BNP reformists, led by party secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, unveiled a long-rehearsed reform proposal, designed to curb the party chief's absolute powers in running the party.
Matin brushed aside the allegations that the military-backed government was trying to manipulate the emergency powers to send Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina on retirement from politics.
Many of the recent media reports, editorials and television talk-shows argued that the 'reformists' are just carrying out the agenda of the emergency government under pressure.