Khaleda to sit with BNP policymakers on Saturday

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit in a meeting with her party's standing committee members on Saturday night to finalise the party's candidate for the by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral post, reports UNB.

The meeting will be held at the BNP chief's Gulshan office around 8:30 pm, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told the news agency on Wednesday.

A party standing committee member, wishing anonymity, said the meeting has been convened mainly to finalise the party's mayoral candidate for the DNCC by-polls.

He said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir may formally announce the name of the BNP candidate after the meeting.