BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday told leaders of the 20-party alliance to prepare lists of their chosen candidates for the upcoming municipality elections.
Expressing her party’s plans to participate in the election, Khaleda said the BNP would coordinate between its own preferred candidates and those picked by its partners to ensure that the alliance endorses a single candidate at each constituency.
The BNP chief made the remarks at a meeting with alliance leaders at her Gulshan office, said party sources. She also requested the political partners to prepare their individual lists within Friday.
According to meeting sources, Khaleda also told leaders from Jamaat-e-Islami to make sure that, unlike the upazila polls, the Islamist party’s candidates do not run in the same areas where the BNP was backing its own candidate.
The elections to 234 municipalities, which are scheduled to be held on December 30, will be the country’s first local government polls on partisan lines.
A BNP delegation, meanwhile, will meet with Election Commission officials tomorrow to press home their demands, which include pushing back the election schedule, party sources said.
