Rashidul Hasan

Recent unilateral appointments and a removal at top posts and the issue over whether three Jatiya Party (JP) lawmakers will stay in the

The Jatiya Party ministers are not resigning from the cabinet now, party's presidium member and Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad said yesterday.

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday blasted the Anti-Corruption Commission for failing to expose corruption committed by former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu.

In response to calls from party leaders, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has decided to convene a joint meeting on January 31 to discuss the appointment of GM Quader as JP co-chair and removal of Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu from the post of secretary general.

HM Ershad yesterday sought an appointment with Sheikh Hasina to discuss his plan to quit as the PM's special envoy and also the issue of resignation of three JP ministers, party sources said.

The BNP last night decided to hold its sixth national council in late March.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said he would resign as the special envoy to the prime minister and his party's three ministers from the cabinet in phases to play the role of a real opposition party.

Rifts in the Jatiya Party widen further, as its Chairman HM Ershad yesterday removed party secretary general Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, who opposed the JP chief's decision to appoint GM Quader as co-chairman.

“Irresponsible attitude” of cops mainly led to the killing of four of the locals protesting the brutality on a woman and her son at Kalihati upazila in Tangail in September last year, said an enquiry report of police.

The countrywide blockade, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance last year, is still on. It is hard to believe that the opposition alliance is yet to officially withdraw the programme through any announcement, party insiders have said.

Kamrul Hasan Nasim claims to be a member of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal in Jessore's Chaugachha. And now, he wants to occupy the BNP central office at Naya Paltan in the capital for implementing his plan to “reform” and “reorganise” the party.

The BNP will not go for any confrontation or movement right now even if it doesn't get permission for a rally to observe the January 5 as

The BNP gained huge political mileage contesting the municipality polls as the polls have “exposed that this government and the Election Commission cannot hold free and fair elections”, sources in the BNP said quoting party chief Khaleda Zia.

Thirteen monitoring teams of BNP are “positively reporting” to Khaleda Zia that party men are gradually joining the municipality electioneering “braving fears of arrest and harassment,” sources said.

The Islami Oikya Jote and the Jomiat-e-Ulamaye Islam, two components of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, are under “huge pressure” from the government to quit the opposition platform, according to their leaders and other sources.

The BNP yesterday received a poor response from the top leaders of the 20-party alliance for jointly taking part in the campaign of the

In her 72 statements on three national days, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia never mentioned the words Pakistani occupation army, Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who committed barbaric atrocities during the war.

Like in the past, BNP chief Khaleda Zia and Jamaat acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman in their statements on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day did not name the Pakistan army and their local collaborators or mention their roles in the killing of intellectuals.

The BNP this time would stand ground and not boycott the polls “no matter what”, the party's national standing committee decided last night.

Even though Abul Kayes Ripon holds a top post in Feni district Awami League, he could not run for mayor in Feni municipality as an independent since his local MP's men did not let him.