Gen Masududdin tells Canadian online paper :90 BNP, 10 AL leaders wanted Gen Moeen to float party

Almost 100 senior leaders from both Awami League and BNP had met the then army chief General Moeen U Ahmed requesting him to launch a new political party as, the politicians claimed, they had been fed up with the two ladies. It was how the minus-two formula came up in the media, said Lt Gen Masududdin Chowdhury, a powerful general during the emergency rule, who is currently serving as Bangladesh High Commissioner to Australia.