SAJJAD HOSSAIN

Some senior BNP leaders have expressed disappointment with the way the repeal of several key ordinances, issued during the interim government, was handled.

They said the issue was poorly managed despite there being valid grounds for the move. As a result, the opposition is now using it to mobilise protests and question the ruling party’s stance on the July charter, which could have been avoided with clearer and more timely public communication.

At a meeting of the Standing Committee, the highest policymaking body of the BNP, at its chairman’s Gulshan office on Saturday night, they said that as an all-party parliamentary

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