BNP standing committee member Jamiruddin Sircar has said there is no strike in the country, as could be understood analysing the situation when the party and its allies now busy with city corporation polls.
“You all know that there is no strike in the country,” he told journalists, after a meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her residence at Gulshan in the city yesterday night.
“You (journalists) know it and anyone can understand it analysing the situation. That’s what our political stand is,” he said, in reply to a question on whether the alliance has withdrawn the blockade that continued since January 6, leaving more than 100 people killed and scores injured.
It has not been made clear, however, whether he meant strike or blockade.
“BNP and the 20-party is now busy with the city corporation polls,” said the senior BNP leader.
Earlier in the afternoon, the party had announced that Khaleda would join a Bengali new year programme to be organised by the party’s cultural wing Jasas.
Khaleda had called the countrywide rail, road, and waterways blockade on January 5 as she failed to leave her Gulshan office to join the party rally.
BNP International Affairs Secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon, who is carrying out the role of the party’s spokesperson, yesterday said the 69-year-old three-time prime minister would be attending, for the first time, the annual cultural programme to be hosted by Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) in front of the party headquarters in Naya Paltan today.
She is also scheduled to visit the party office in nearly six months, after her last visit on October 21 last.