Zaman's resignation deepens crisis in Sylhet city BNP
A frontline leader of the newly formed Sylhet city BNP has resigned on 'personal grounds' further escalating the party's on-going crisis.
Shamsuzzaman Zaman, who was made Joint secretary of the new committee, resigned Monday after the news of his alleged 'expulsion for misbehaviour with a senior leader' became widely known.
He is one of the closest aide of the district BNP chief and former lawmaker M Ilyas Ali.
"More people may quit the committee and about 50 leaders of the faction, led by Dr Shahriar met the party senior secretary general in the capital on Monday to raise their grievances", Nasim Hossain, former city BNP secretary and senior vice-president of the new committee told this correspondent yesterday.
Insiders said, Zaman submitted his resignation on getting information that he was being expelled for misbehaving with Komor Uddin, the UK BNP chief. Komor, a trusted man to the party chief and Tarique Rahman, lodged a complaint against Zaman with the central body three days ago.
The leaders and activists of Sylhet city BNP loyal to Saifur, rejected the new committee at a press conference on 6 November. They demanded scrapping of the committee in 7 days and threatened with agitation if their demands were not met within the deadline.
Central committee member Dr. Shahriar Hossain Chowdhury read out the written statement before the journalists.
The leaders at the press conference alleged that party vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and central organising secretary M Ilyas Ali wrongly influenced other central leaders to form the new city committee.
City ward councillor Rezaul Hasan Lodi and Abdul Waseh Chowdhury Zuber, respectively the organising secretary and office secretary of the new committee, also demanded scrapping of the same and threatened to resign. They said that the new committee had been formed with a few unwanted people.
The central committee on June 9 this year formed a 13-man convening committee with Dr Shahriar Hossain Chowdhury as convenor and asked them to form the full committee. Although they sat united at first but differences arose later. Two factions of the party submitted two different committee suggestions on June 25.
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