BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed will lead a three-member delegation in the second phase of talks organised by the National Consensus Commission this (Monday) afternoon.

The meeting is scheduled to be held at 4:30pm on Monday at the Foreign Service Academy with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, who heads the National Consensus Commission, in the chair, aiming to resolve the disagreements over key reforms that hindered progress in the first round.

The other members of the BNP delegation are Ismail Zabihullah, a member of the party chairperson’s advisory council and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kajol, former secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan. 

This meeting is part of the ongoing talks that began earlier this year to build a broad political agreement on important national reforms. The first phase of the National Consensus Commission’s meetings with 33 political parties took place from February 15 to May 19. While the major political parties reached a consensus on most of the reforms, they disagreed on some key issues.