The BNP is likely to decide this week on the schedule for its long-awaited national council as the party seeks to reorganise its structure and strengthen its grassroots network.

BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed terms “untrue” Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam’s statement that he did not get invitation to attend BNP’s sixth national council.

BNP gets permission to hold its sixth national council on March 19 at the Institute of Engineers' Bangladesh (IEB).

With the BNP's central council likely in March, speculations run rife within the party as to who is going to be its secretary general.