Youth urges BCP to cooperate with UDC
Tuesday, August 04, 2015
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Rakgare
Addressing the media yesterday, president of the BCPYL Tumiso Rakgare said that the time has come for opposition parties to set aside their differences and work towards liberating Batswana, and therefore the league was in full support of the party president Dumelang Saleshando’s stance.
“If you look at page 9, the last paragraph ‘it is therefore imperative for the BCP to engage the UDC [Umbrella for Democratic Change] and seriously consider ways in which we can cooperate for the 2019 elections’.” he said.
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