The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The emergency meeting of the BNP-led four-party alliance yesterday could not reach a decision on the issue of joining the polls on December 18.

The leaders of the alliance would meet again today.

"We have put forward four-point charter of demands to the government and they did not meet those," Khandker Delwar Hossain, Secretary General of BNP told journalists after the meeting of the four party alliance at BNP Chairperson's Gulsahn office in the city.

Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Moulana Abdul Latif Nezami, Secretary General of Islamic Oikkya Jote, Barrister Andlib Rahman, Chairman and Shamim Al Mamun, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), among others, attended the meeting.

"We again call upon the government to withdraw the state of emergency and give us scope to participate in the election," Delwar said.