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BNP council on time

Rakib Hasnet Suman
Policymakers of opposition BNP have agreed to hold the party's sixth national council within the stipulated time to avoid any punitive measure by the Election Commission.
The party's national standing committee at a meeting on Monday night expressed concern that the ruling Awami League might create legal problems if BNP failed to hold the council timely.
As per the party charter, the central executive committee of BNP, which is elected for three years, will expire in December. The fifth national council of BNP was held on December 8,2009.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia raised
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the issue in the Monday meet-ing for discussion and decided to hold further discussions to finalise a plan for the national council.
“We will hold the council as per the party constitution and the RPO (Representation of the People Order). Otherwise, Awami League may make it a legal issue," said meeting sources quoting Khaleda as saying.
The sources said the standing committee, the party's highest policymaking body, had mainly discussed the provisions in the party constitution and the RPO.
Sources among BNP high-ups, however, could not confirm whether die council of the party's 75 district units would be held before the national council.
Asked, standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said they had discussed the issue in the Monday meeting but the committee would sit again to finalise the decision.
“We will decide complying with the party constitution and the RPO since BNP is a registered political party," he told The Daily Star.
Another member of BNP standing committee told The Daily Star that the issue might be finalised in the next committeemeeting.
He said, "Recruitment in the party will begin soon and the senior leaders will then visit district units to ready the party for council.
After the crushing defeat in the 2008 general elections, BNP had reorganised all its units across the country. It went for the fifth council after forming most of its unit councils.
The council re-elected Khaleda as the party chairperson and created a new post of senior vice-chairman. Khaleda's son Tarique Rahman was elected to the post.