Mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation and BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu, leader of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh Fazle Hossain Badsha, a leader of the Kansat electricity movement Gholam Rabbani, and socio-political psychologist and professor of psychology at the Rajshahi University Shawkat Ara will feature in the panel.

The panel members will answer questions and debate issues raised by members of the audience. The programme will be presented and moderated by Shakeel Anwar of the BBC Bengali Service.

The selection of the audience follows a transparent path -- listeners have been invited to register their interest in attending the Sanglaps, through announcements in all BBC Bengali programmes. In addition, invitations have been sent to various Radio Listeners' Clubs whose members are generally young, with diverse political views and affiliations.

The Sanglap will create a platform where members of the public can discuss major socio-political issues with leaders of various political parties and members of the civil society.

The on-going Bangladesh Sanglap series follows the highly successful series of eight debates last year, which were jointly produced with the BBC World Service Trust, and also called Bangladesh Sanglap.

The recorded Sanglap programme will be broadcast on the BBC Bengali radio at 7:30pm on Sunday and telecast on Channel-i at 8:00pm on Monday.