Two visiting US congressmen held a meeting in Dhaka on Sunday with leaders of the three major political parties – Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League, its main political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the opposition Jatiya Party in parliament.
The meeting was held at the residence of US Ambassador to Dhaka Peter D. Haas in Gulshan in the capital. The one and a half hour meeting started at 4 pm.
Sources said Awami League’s finance and planning secretary Waseka Ayesha Khan, MP, Nahim Razzaq, MP and Tamanna Nusrat Babli, MP represented the party at the meeting, while the BNP delegation included party’s publicity secretary and former MLA Shahid Uddin Chowdhary. Annie was involved. The JAPA delegation included MPs Sharifa Kader, Rana Mohd Sohail and Nazma Akhtar.