If they fail to decide themselves, BNP sources said that party Chairperson
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
-- as a backup -- has a list prepared with names of finalised candidates.
The decisions were made at a BNP Standing Committee meeting at Khaleda's Gulshan office last night.
Taking to news hounds following the meeting, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government has been pressuring BNP candidates to withdraw from the municipality polls race. Leaders and activists of the BNP-led alliance were also being tossed in the clink
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indiscriminately, Fakhrul alleged.
The BNP will create divisional committees which will work alongside a central monitoring committee to observe the election, Fakhrul said.