Suggesting a ban on political programmes like hartal and road blockade in their new proposals is under active consideration of the pro-reform leaders, according to sources close to them.

"We are also thinking of a proposal for reducing the tenure of government to four years," one leader said. Proposals may also be made for making parliament effective so that lawmakers can play their proper role, he added.

Pro-reform leaders have already finalised some changes in their reform proposals including those concerning the term of party secretary general, and presidents and secretaries of district units of the party to ensure intra-party democracy.

BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan will announce within a couple of days changes in the reform proposals, and fresh proposals about politics and national institutions like parliament, party sources said.

Meanwhile, Mannan Bhuiyan visited BNP leader and former finance minister Saifur Rahman at his Gulshan residence last night and discussed the overall reform proposals with him.

"Some changes are being made in the proposals for reforms that we have announced earlier solely for the party," Bhuiyan told reporters yesterday at his Gulshan residence.

"Now, we also want to say something about overall politics as well as the country," he said, adding they will announce soon some proposals regarding this.

The former LGRD and cooperatives minister expressed surprise about the filing of a case against him at Cox's Bazar for having 10 acres of land registered in his name illegally.

"Some unknown persons might have taken the land using my name but I don't know anything in this regard," he said.

"I have never heard about it ... Even nobody collected my signature for registration of land in Cox's Bazar. The whole thing is bogus, " he said. Proper investigation would prove the case against him is false, he hoped.

Meanwhile, some BNP leaders including former lawmakers Syed Abul Hossain and Mosharraf Hossain Mangu and a group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders yesterday met Bhuiyan at his residence to express their support for efforts to make the party more democratic in its functioning.

On June 25, Mannan Bhuiyan announced reform proposals for the party.

Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia is also preparing reform proposals that would be placed at a party council.