Tarique becomes BNP chairman

Zia-family scion Tarique Rahman becomes Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to succeed his mother who died recently.

The party declared on Friday night that the BNP Standing Committee in its meeting "unanimously" decided to elevate Rahman to chairman from the position of acting chairman.

Tarique Rahman presided over the emergency meeting of the party's Standing Committee, after which BNP secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the party chief's northern tour "has been postponed".

Tarique Rahman, who returned from prolonged exile in London few days back, was scheduled to leave tomorrow (Jan 11) for the northern districts on his maiden political trip outside Dhaka.