Bhuiyan terms reports about his political mission 'false'
Sunday, 23 September 2007
New BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday played down his expelled predecessor Mannan Bhuiyan's current role, as he said the dissident is no threat to his party, reports UNB.
Likening Bhuiyan's meeting with some BNP leaders in Singapore to romance film 'Love in Singapore', Delwar told the reporters that whatever meeting he might have held there would not affect BNP.
However, rebel BNP leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, returning from Singapore Saturday, dismissed some newspaper reports at home about his meetings and activities with a political mission as "false and fabricated."
Talking to the reporters at his Gulshan house, Bhuiyan, who is trying for a regrouping of the party leaders in his reformist camp said, he did neither stay in the Park Hotel nor file any GD in Singapore for his personal safety.
Bhuiyan said, he stayed at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore where the doctors stated that his condition is good.
"I did not hold any meeting or travel in a BMW car. Nor did I attend an iftar party of a Narayan Babu," said the expelled BNP secretary general.
Bhuiyan, however, said, he met with AL presidium member Amir Hossain Amu at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital where his wife is undergoing treatment.
"But we did not discuss any political matters," he also told the reporters.
"May Almighty Allah bless those who published false news. Those who are propagating all these canards perhaps lost their balance," said Bhuiyan.
About dialogue with the Election Commission (EC), he said, after receiving letter from the EC, they would finalise their decision in consultation within party and others.
Meanwhile, Delwar said, he cannot hold any meeting of BNP due to lack of place. He said that he wants to hold it at the party office instead of any hotel or under any canopy.
In reply to a question, Delwar said, although there had not been any meeting, he keeps contact with the leaders of the four-party alliance that had ruled the country in the immediate past.
About meeting with the EC, he said, the role of the EC is not clear to them.
A number of district leaders from Narayanganj and Chapainawabganj greeted Delwar, and urged him to take disciplinary actions against those who sided with the expelled leaders.
Likening Bhuiyan's meeting with some BNP leaders in Singapore to romance film 'Love in Singapore', Delwar told the reporters that whatever meeting he might have held there would not affect BNP.
However, rebel BNP leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, returning from Singapore Saturday, dismissed some newspaper reports at home about his meetings and activities with a political mission as "false and fabricated."
Talking to the reporters at his Gulshan house, Bhuiyan, who is trying for a regrouping of the party leaders in his reformist camp said, he did neither stay in the Park Hotel nor file any GD in Singapore for his personal safety.
Bhuiyan said, he stayed at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore where the doctors stated that his condition is good.
"I did not hold any meeting or travel in a BMW car. Nor did I attend an iftar party of a Narayan Babu," said the expelled BNP secretary general.
Bhuiyan, however, said, he met with AL presidium member Amir Hossain Amu at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital where his wife is undergoing treatment.
"But we did not discuss any political matters," he also told the reporters.
"May Almighty Allah bless those who published false news. Those who are propagating all these canards perhaps lost their balance," said Bhuiyan.
About dialogue with the Election Commission (EC), he said, after receiving letter from the EC, they would finalise their decision in consultation within party and others.
Meanwhile, Delwar said, he cannot hold any meeting of BNP due to lack of place. He said that he wants to hold it at the party office instead of any hotel or under any canopy.
In reply to a question, Delwar said, although there had not been any meeting, he keeps contact with the leaders of the four-party alliance that had ruled the country in the immediate past.
About meeting with the EC, he said, the role of the EC is not clear to them.
A number of district leaders from Narayanganj and Chapainawabganj greeted Delwar, and urged him to take disciplinary actions against those who sided with the expelled leaders.