What BNP said during Consensus Commission meeting

TAM Report ||

Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed spoke on Monday in detail about justice, reforms and upcoming national election in the second round of discussions held by the National Consensus Commission aimed at building consensus among political parties on various state reforms.

He urged the commission to present a roadmap to hold elections by December this year without delay at the meeting that began around 5:00pm on Monday with the commission’s head and Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the Foreign Service Academy auditorium.

The meeting that ended at 6:45 pm was attended by several political parties including the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and the National Citizen Party. More than 30 political parties were invited to the meeting.

The chief adviser’s press wing later briefed journalists on what was said in the meeting.

A three-member BNP delegation led by Salahuddin Ahmed attended the meeting.

“We are here for the second time for this important discussion. We don’t know if there will be a third. But we are not satisfied with the pace of this reform initiative. We are one of the key proponents of reform. If you had not taken responsibility by fortune, then whenever fascism collapsed, we would have had to step forward as committed. I won’t elaborate on our 31-point reform proposal. There’s no reform idea here that doesn’t align with those points. In fact, your proposals go even beyond ours. We have discussed these extensively, especially from our party’s side,” Salahuddin said at the beginning.