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Staff Reporter

The secretaries general meeting of the four-party alliance did not take any decision as it was adjourned for another day. The meeting was held at the BNP secretary general's NAM flat yesterday evening.

The meeting of the alliance was summoned following the dismissal of three separate writ petitions by the High Court challenging the EC's gazette on the redrawing of parliamentary constituencies and the announcement of the parliamentary elections schedule by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda.

BNP and other components parties of the alliance had earlier urged the Election Commission (EC) not to declare the election schedule. But the EC's declaration of election schedule has prompted the alliance to sit at an urgent meeting which ended without any decision.

After the meeting Rizvi Ahmed, office secretary of BNP told journalists that the " Secretaries general of the four-party alliance have adjourned today's (Sunday) meeting for another day".

When asked when the meeting would be held again he replied that the top leaders of the four parties would sit together and fix the date for the next round of the meeting.

Khandker Delwar Hossain, secretary general, Selima Rahman, joint secretary general of BNP, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, secretary general and assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, ATM Azharul Islam, Abdul Qader Mollha, Moulana Rafiqul Islam Khan, city unit president of Bangladesh Jammat-e- Islami, Moulana Abdul Latif Nezami, secretary general and Moulana Sakhawat Hossain of of Islami Oikkya Jote Islami and Shamim Al Mamun, secretary general of Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), among others, were present at the meeting.