Raushan wishes AL council the best

The Jatiya Party MP also wished the councilors well. She made the statement in Shahjalal International Airport around 10am before leaving the country to attend the 135th IPU Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Both she and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad did not join the council though the party sent two representatives - its Presidium Member and Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, and Special Assistant to the chairman Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu – to the inaugural session of the two-day event. When contacted, JaPa General Secretary Ruhul Amin Hawlader said there was no example in the country's political culture that any party president and secretary general had attended such councils. “If there was any such culture, our top leaders would have attended,” he added. On the contrary, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury is at the council.