Rival faction rejects new Pabna dist BNP body
A faction of Pabna district unit of BNP led by Kamrul Hassan Mintu has rejected the newly formed 172-member district BNP committee.
Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir approved the 172-member Pabna district unit BNP committee with Major (retd) KS Mahmud as president and engineer Habibur Rahman Tota as secretary on Sunday.
Terming the new committee as a pocket committee that ignored 'devoted' party men, aggrieved BNP leaders at a press conference on Pabna Press Club premises yesterday blamed Shamsur Rahman Shimul Bishwas, personal assistant to the BNP chairperson, for creating divisions in Pabna BNP politics.
“Misleading the central leaders Shimul Bishwas influenced forming Pabna BNP committee with his fellow men,” read the key note paper presented at the press conference.
“Four members of his family including three of his brothers have got position in the newly formed Pabna district unit BNP while many devoted leaders of the party have been deprived.
“Forty-eight of the 101 members of the previous committee have been left out while many people who are not related with BNP politics are in the new committee. Through nepotism 15 members from a village and 10 members from another village have been included in the committee,” the paper added.
“The grassroots leaders rejected such pocket committee. A mass protest rally will be held in the district town on Wednesday. We will continue agitation programmes until this committee is changed,” said Md Saiful Islam Badsha, joint secretary of the new committee, who sided with its opponents.
Among others, former joint secretary of Pabna district unit BNP Ahsan Ahmed Sabbir, Abul Hashem, former office secretary, and Sajjad Hossain Swapon, JCD vice president, spoke on the occasion.
Refuting the allegations of intra-party rivals, secretary of the new committee of Pabna district unit BNP Habibur Rahman Tota said, "The full fledged committee has been formed through coordination with and accommodation of opponents. If anybody goes against the party rules, he will face organisational steps."
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