Dhaka, Nov. 24 -- Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged journalists to stick to their professional ethics and refrain from aligning with political parties to fulfil their professional commitment to the people.

Speaking at a discussion on media reform at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka on Monday, Mirza Fakhrul said divisions within journalists' unions and their alignment with political camps had undermined public trust.

"It creates a problem if journalists choose to slip into the pockets of political parties," said the BNP secretary general.

"Let me be frank, journalists have many unions like BFUJ. Even such organisations have factions. You like to act as a partisan. Political parties do not ...