Khaleda to constitute city BNP unit thru’ council

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday night decided to form the new committee of the Dhaka city BNP unit through holding its council. The Dhaka city unit council will be followed by the councils of all the ward and thana units of the party, and the local unit councils will be held within a month, said Abdus Salam, Dhaka city unit BNP member secretary, at a press briefing. The press briefing was held after Khaleda Zia’s closed-door meeting with unit leaders at her Gulshan office. The party chief sat at the meeting with Dhaka city BNP unit leaders at 8:55pm, which ended around 10:40pm. The organisational activities of the current city committee, the role of its leaders and its different units, their failure to intensify the pre-election movement, reasons behind the failure, future action plans also came up for discussions at the meeting. “The party chairperson will entrust some leaders with the job of forming an effective committee of the Dhaka city unit. Each of the ward and thana committees will be formed within a month under their supervision. Then the new city committee will be formed through another council,” Salam told journalists. The present convening committee of the city unit will continue its regular activities until the new committee is formed, he said, according to UNB.