Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Major political parties, including BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, started a meeting with the National Consensus Commission, led by Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus, on Saturday.

The meeting began at 3pm at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

This is the first meeting between the political parties and the commission.

Delegations from BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, LDP, Jatiya Party (Kazi Jafar), Nagorik Oikya, Islami Andolan, Khilafat Majlish, GanoSanghati Andolan, Gono Odhhikar Parishad and Jatiya Nagorik Committee participated in the meeting.

Among them, a six-member BNP delegation, led by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, attended the meeting.

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