, Dec. 11 -- Just hours before the announcement of the election schedule, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday called on party leaders and activists to get ready to welcome their Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, saying he will return to the country 'very soon'.

"Since all our leaders are here today, I want to tell you that our leader (Tarique) will come back to us very soon," he said while speaking at the opening session of the fifth day of BNP's 'Plan to Build the Country' workshop.

The BNP leader called on his colleagues to be ready to give Tarique a grand reception on the day he returns home, ending his 17 years of exile in London.

"The day our leader arrives and sets foot in Bangladesh, the whole country sho...