Jamaat, BNP should work together for next 5 yrs: Shafiqur

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said his party and the BNP should work together over the next five years for the sake of national stability.

"We have said that for the sake of our much-loved country, we worked together in the past and, InshaAllah, we will work together in the future as well. Mr Tarique Rahman and the BNP leadership have expressed the same aspiration," he told reporters after a meeting with the BNP acting chairman at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office.

Shafiqur said the two parties also discussed the possibility of working together to restore a stable and favourable environment for the nation over the next five years.

He added that the two parties will sit together after the election slated for February 12.

"Immediately after the election and before the formation of the government, we will sit together with an open mind to discuss national interests, think for the nation, and take decisions accordingly," the Jamaat chief said.