Still looking for a 'magical overhaul' to stage a come back in the political landscape, BNP is planning to use the fasting month of Ramadan for its full-scale preparations to wage a 'strong movement' after the holy month, reports UNB.
During the Ramadan, BNP wants to reorganise itself and its associate bodies and boost the morale of its grassroots-level leaders and activists.
Although BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has threatened to wage a movement after Eid to force the government to hold a fresh election soon, the party senior leaders think their movement is unlikely to get intensified before October.
According to sources close to Khaleda, the party will start reshuffling the cards with reconstituting the new committee for Dhaka city unit in early Ramadan and then will gradually tidy up Chhatra Dal and Jubo Dal and other associate bodies.
The sources said the party will announce programmes on some specific issues, mainly on public sufferings, government's failures and misdeeds, and national interest to put the party men at war mood after Eid-ul-Fitr as per the announcement of Khaleda. But it is unlikely to announce any harsher programmes like hartal and blockade before October unless the political situation takes a new twist with any major development.
Three BNP senior leaders said their party now do not want to take any violent or harsher programmes that may dent their image abroad as most foreign countries are mounting pressure on the government to hold a fresh inclusive election through talks with BNP.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged that the country is passing now under a wild-repressive rule, report agencies.
"In fact, there's no government in the country right now. Democracy has been deported," Khaleda, also a former Prime Minister, made the remarks while consoling the family members of Mirpur Bihari camp violence victims when they met Khaleda at her Gulshan office in the city Thursday night.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Tariqul Islam and Rafiqul Islam Miah also spoke at the programme.
Khaleda alleged that the perpetrators of the heinous killings taking place across the country are not getting punishment as there is no rule of law here.
