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Khandaker Delwar Hossain, secretary general of a BNP faction, said Wednesday the BNP would announce programmes in a couple of days to press the demand for the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia.

After a meeting on his NAM flat in the afternoon, Delwar told reporters: "We discussed probable programmes for the release of our detained leader at the meeting.

Programmes will be announced in a day or two." The death anniversary of president Ziaur Rahman was also on agenda, he said.

Delwar reiterated that the BNP would not take part in the polls without two detained leaders (Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia). "People of the country will not accept any election-fixing excluding the two leaders," he said.

The BNP chairperson's adviser ASM Hannan Shah, joint secretaries general Selima Rahman and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and acting office secretary Rizvi Ahmed were present at the meeting.