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6th national council of BNP by March

The sixth national council of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will be held by March this year.The decision was taken at a meeting of the party’s standing committee on Saturday night.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir informed this at a press briefing.He, however, said the date and the venue of the council will be announced later.Earlier, the meeting began around 9:30pm at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office with Khaleda Zia in the chair.The last and fifth council of BNP was held on December 8, 2009.