Feud in Magura BNP
Rivals demand dissolution of Murad-Biswas body
Internal feud in BNP Magura district unit yesterday surfaced anew as rival faction demanded dissolution of the committee led by Kabir Murad and Ali Ahmed Biswas.
The rival BNP men led by advocate Mokaddes Hossain and Iqbal Akhter Khan also demanded formation of a new committee with dedicated party men as soon as possible.
They made the demand at a press conference at Magura Press Club in the afternoon. The conference was addressed, among others, by advocate Mokaddes Hossain, former general secretary of BNP district unit Mohammad Nazimuddin, former senior vice-president of the same unit Aminul Islam Chandu Mian, former president of Magura municipality unit Sayed Nurul Hasan, former general secretary of the same unit Faruk Ahmed Babul, local BNP leaders Farukuzzaman, Munshi Ali Tarek and Akter Hossain and President of Jubo Dal district unit Alamgir Hossain.
The speakers said Kabir Murad has no organisational capacity to run the party in the district. He has been carrying out the party activities at upazila and union levels through 'pocket' committees comprising 'inefficient' and 'worthless' people, they alleged.
Branding Ali Ahmed Biswas a listed criminal, the rival BNP men said he was a regional leader of outlawed Sarbahara Party and was awarded ten years rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the Special Trial Tribunal-7 in Dhaka during army-backed caretaker government for possessing illegal arms. Biswas. Now he is on bail granted by the High Court.
During 'Operation Clean heart' in 2002, army arrested Ali Ahmed Biwas as a 'listed criminal' and recovered a shutter gun from his possession, they said.
Advocate Mokaddes in his speech said Kabir Murad is involved in damaging party image by patronising a person like Ali Ahmed Biswas. The central committee should immediately dissolve the Murad-Biswas led district, Mokaddes said.
Contacted, district BNP President Kabir Murad refused to say anything about the allegations brought by his rival party men against Ali Anmed Biswas. Biswas also held the same post of the same unit during the rule of BNP-led four-party alliance government, Murad said.
Murad branded the rival group's leaders as agents of the ruling party.
BNP Magura district unit had been divided into two factions over formation of the district unit in July 2009. One is led by Kabir Murad and Ali Ahmed Biswas while the other by advocate Mokaddes Hossain and Iqbal Akhter Khan
The two rival factions held separate councils of the district unit on November 5, 2009 and formed two committees. But the central BNP finally approved Kabir Murad and Ali Ahmed Biswas-led committee.
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