The meeting will be held at the chairperson’s offices in Gulshan on Saturday evening, said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. “Members of the BNP Standing Committee, the vice chairman, members of the Advisory Council and the joint secretaries general will meet this evening,” he told bdnews24.com. Khaleda Zia’s son, Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman, is serving as the acting chairman of the BNP since the jail term for Khaleda. BNP scheduled protests for Friday and Saturday against the jailing of the party chief. The BNP said it is holding peaceful protests instead of declaring a general strike.

Source: bd News24 February 10, 2018 06:56 UTC