Dhaka, June 29 -- BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Sunday questioned why reform dialogue is needed if all parties are asked to fully agree with every proposal put forward by the National Consensus Commission.

"If we are asked to agree 100 percent with all proposals of the Commission, then why were we invited for discussion?" he told reporters after the seventh day of the second phase of talks between the commission and political parties at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.

The BNP leader said the July Charter or National Charter is supposed to be signed by bringing together all the issues on which the parties agree. "Now if we are forced here to agree on all the issues - that is not right," he said replying to...