Dhaka, March 24 -- A disagreement has emerged within the National Citizen Party (NCP) over the interpretation of a meeting held on March 11 with Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman, as two senior party leaders have provided conflicting accounts of the discussion.

Sarjis Alam, the NCP's Chief Organiser for the North, distanced himself from the comments made by Hasnat Abdullah, his counterpart from the South, who had claimed that senior military officials pressured him and two others to accept the concept of a "refined" Awami League.

In a social media post on Saturday, Sarjis described the matter as an "opinion" rather than a formal proposal.

"The way Hasnat interpreted and received the army chief's statement that day and wrote ...