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DHAKA, June 20 (Reuters) - The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) asked the country's figurehead president on Thursday to resign immediately because lawmakers had lost confidence in him, the official BSS news agency said.

President A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury's son said his father would resign on Friday.

"BNP Parliamentary Party (BNPPP) today urged A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury to immediately resign from the office of the president," BSS said.

The BNPPP, headed by Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, decided at a meeting on Thursday to ask the president to resign as the "BNP lawmakers have lost confidence in him," the news agency said but gave no other details.

"He (the president) will definitely honour the party decision," Chowdhury's son Mahi, a BNP lawmaker, told reporters.

Chowdhury was elected president uncontested for a five-year term on November 14 last year on nomination from the BNP, which in alliance with three other rightist parties, came to power in October general elections.

The centrist Awami League of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which lost the election, has since boycotted parliament saying the polls were rigged.

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