The BNP is planning to adopt a long-term strategy to strengthen the party and decide not to launch any strong movement for a few more months.
The plans came following several rounds of discussions and evaluation meetings at joint secretary general and organising secretary level.
The meetings summed up that the party would first reorganise itself to beat the frustration that had percolated through the organisation after the January 5 polls, said a senior leader.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a series of workers meeting and public meetings in every division in the months ahead along with some issue-based programmes.
The party discussed all these plans and policies while joint secretaries and organising secretaries held a meeting at party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office on Monday.
The BNP policy making body, the standing committee, will decide upon all these plans and decisions in tonight’s meeting.
“We have discussed many things in the meeting and all the issues will be finalised in the standing committee meeting,” Mohammad Shahjahan, joint secretary general of the party, told the Dhaka Tribune.
A senior leader of the party seeking anonymity said they discussed upazila election, movement strategy and how to reorganise the party and on the basis of their observation and decisions they submitted a report to Khaleda Zia on Monday night.
According to the report, some central teams will be formed to visit thanas and upazilas to reorganise the grassroots.
The report also said the party would withdraw all the expulsion orders issued during the upazila parishad elections to strengthen the imminent anti-government campaign but as for the expelled leaders they have to apply for withdrawal of their expulsion orders with recommendation of the district and thana committees.
Another senior leader said Khaleda Zia would start holding meetings with the district level leaders from April 10 and before that grassroots leaders will have to sit with joint secretary generals and organising secretaries.
The Nayapaltan central officials have already issued letters and phoned district leaders to let them know about their schedules of meetings with central leaders including the chairperson in Dhaka.
As per the report, the joint secretary generals and organising secretaries requested Khaleda Zia to go to Nayapaltan office once a week but Khaleda Zia refused to do so.
