After her meeting with visiting UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday evening sat in an emergency meeting with her party’s senior leaders. The meeting began around 7:40pm at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Dr Moyeen Khan, BNP chairperson’s advisers Osman Faruk, Reaz Rahman and Sabihuddin Ahmad, BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury are, among others, present at the meeting. Soon after Taranco had left Khaleda’s residence, senior BNP leaders entered it and sat at the meeting. Party sources said Khaleda will convey the outcomes of the meeting with the UN envoy to her party leaders as well as finalise the opposition’s next course of action and stance on the election. Earlier at 6pm, Oscar Fernández Taranco sat in one-hour meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and discussed various issues relating to the next general election. Briefing reporters after the meeting, BNP vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said the process of the discussion is on and it will continue. Earlier, on December 7, Taranco had another meeting with the opposition leader at her Gulshan residence. Taranco arrived here on Friday aiming to encourage the bickering political parties to peacefully resolve the ongoing political standoff over the composition of election-time cabinet. Meanwhile, the UN envoy had a series of meetings with Awami League and BNP leaders apart from the ones with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia and the Chief Election Commissioner in the last three days. – UNB
