Dhaka, Feb. 19 -- Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced on Wednesday that BNP would welcome the formation of a new political party by students.

"We welcome the new student organisations that have already been formed. We will welcome when the students will form a party. But that does not mean that whoever sits in the government will form a party using all the government facilities. That will never be accepted. The people will not accept it," he said.

Mirza Fakhrul said this while speaking as the chief guest at a discussion titled "New Style of Politics in Bangladesh after the Mass Uprising" organised by Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) Audito...