Feud in Pabna BNP Deepens
Rivals not invited to 18-party meet
Internal feud in Pabna BNP has further deepened as aggrieved party men were not invited to an 18-party alliance meeting, which was addressed by central BNP leader Iqbal Hassan Mahmud Tuku in the town on Sunday.
Leaders of the rival faction have blamed the central leaders for not taking steps to end the feud that surfaced after formation of the district committee on January 22 this year with Major KS Mahamud as president and Habibur Rahman Tota as general secretary.
They rejected the committee, saying that the dedicated party men were not included in it. The rival group also staged several demonstrations in the town to put pressure on the central leaders to dissolve the committee, but to no effect.
On April 15, they formed a 151-member 'Pabna BNP Protection Committee' with former lawmaker Sirajul Islam Sardar as president and Kamrul Hassan Mintu as general secretary and occupied the district BNP office on May 11.
Since then, the district unit led by Mahamud and Tota has been carrying out party activities from the residence of Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, personal assistant to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The committee also arranged Sunday's 18-party alliance meeting at the Biswas' house in the town.
On the other hand, the rival groups are holding party programmes at the district office. They have started forming “Pabna BNP Protection Committee at upazila level.
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