The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain alleged a conspiracy is going on to hold a "mock election" keeping the national leaders, including Begum Khaleda Zia, in captivity.

" But the conscious people of the country will not accept it," he said when a delegation of student leaders of the 80s, led by BNP central executive committee member and former student leader Khandaker Babul Chowdhury, called on him at his residence Monday.

He observed that as BNP faced crisis after the promulgation of martial law in 1982 so is it also facing crisis now after January 11, 2007.

"BNP leaders and activists have been passing through bad times as of the years in the 80s," said the leader of the immediate-past ruling party, which has now split over the issue of party reforms, being pressed by the interim regime.