Such conferences will be held in 19 places covering 64 districts with the participation of about 50,000 leaders and activists, BNP sources said.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain will inaugurate the conference at Thakurgaon Girls' High School ground at 9:00am with BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman in the chair.

They said 23 editors of national dailies have been invited to the conference in this northern district headquarters.

A total of 1,555 representatives, including 1,150 from union level and 405 from ward level, of three districts-Thakurgaon, Dinajpur and Panchagarh--have been invited to the first conference.

All the representatives will be given an audio cassette and five books each containing speeches of late president Ziaur Rahman, founder of the BNP, information about Bangladesh politics, country's agricultural development and prospect, government's role in alleviating poverty, and opposition's "negative programmes blocking government activities".

Meanwhile, letters containing the 18-point agenda have been sent to 49,823 participants of the conferences for their preparation to share views, ideas and observations about the party and its overall activities.

All the representatives, according to the sources, will address the meetings. If anyone failed to get a scope to talk at the conference, he/she would submit a written speech in the light of the agenda, the sources said.

They said the other 18 conferences will be held in Kushtia, Cox's Bazar, Comilla, Gopalganj, Bhola, Barisal, Natore, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Patia, Khulna, Sylhet, Srimongol, Mymensingh, Lalmonirhat, Noakhali, Dhaka and Jamalpur.

The massive campaign will be rounded off with the last conference in the capital on March 10.