The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee are planning to form a new political party within a month or two, said Nasiruddin Patwary, convener of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee.

A number of former leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami have taken an initiative to form a political party that will not be based on religion.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said policemen should not work as a team of any political party.

A political party cannot be merely reactive to political events and even much less suffer from duality of command exacerbated by string pulling by the absentee landlord.