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Meeting underway between Yunus, leaders of BNP, Jamaat and others

Messenger Online

Published: 17:55, 4 December 2024

Meeting underway between Yunus, leaders of BNP, Jamaat and others

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Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus is holding a meeting with top leaders of the country's major political parties, including the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. The meeting, which started at 4:00pm at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital, is expected to discuss ongoing issues of the country. Political leaders, including a five-member BNP delegation led by its Standing Committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, enter the academy from 3:30pm.

This is the second round of meetings the chief adviser is holding within a day to call for national unity amid the ongoing situation in Bangladesh. Earlier yesterday, he met student leaders, including the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, at his official residence the State Guest House Jamuna.

During the meeting, leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement suggested forming an anti-propaganda cell.

"We discussed several issues, including recent tensions, Bangladesh's relations with India, communal issues, rising commodity prices, the ground reality, public sentiment, and the education reform commission with the chief adviser," the movement's convener Hasnat Abdullah told journalists in a brief press conference in front of the chief adviser's residence after the meeting.

"Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has taken notes from us," he added.

Meanwhile, the chief adviser told the students that they are the guardians of the state.

"You [students] are the guardians of the country. Don't forget this role. Don't forget your own role. Many are here and many are not. But those who are not here are also the guardians of the state," he said.

Yunus also invited the leaders of religious groups to join a dialogue with him tomorrow (5 December).

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