Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma’s chief opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has called for a nation-wide party meeting, in a bid to discuss the ruling military junta’s Constitution and the current political situation in the country.

The meeting is to be held from April 20 to April 29, at the party head office in Rangoon. All branch offices across the country, including youth and women’s wings have been invited to attend the meeting, party spokesperson Nyan Win said.

“We will be discussing the Constitution, and future activities of the party. We have extended an invitation to all branch offices, requesting them to send two delegates each. We are expecting about 100 to 150 participants at the meeting,” Nyan Win told Mizzima on Friday.

During the meeting, the party Central Executive Committee would give a policy paper that they had drafted to all the delegates, who would attend the meeting from across the country, he added.