BNP calls emergency standing committee meeting this evening
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The BNP has called an emergency meeting of its Standing Committee following Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus's address to the nation on the issue of the referendum.
The meeting is scheduled to be held at 7pm today (13 November) at the party chairperson's office in Gulshan.
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman will preside over the meeting.
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Earlier on the day, Chief Adviser Yunus announced in his televised address that the 13th national election and a referendum on proposals made in the July National Charter will be held simultaneously on the same day in the first half of February next year.
The BNP has long been demanding such a referendum, while Jamaat-e-Islami and other parties had called for holding it before the polls.
