BNP tells EC about expulsion of Bhuiyan and Ashraf
Thursday, 6 September 2007
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has sent a letter to the Election Commission (EC) informing it that Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and Ashraf Hossain cannot represent the party in the proposed EC dialogue as they have been expelled from the party, reports UNB.
"A letter signed by BNP joint office secretary Rizvi Ahmed has been sent to the EC to inform it that Mannan Bhuiyan and Ashraf Hossain no longer belong to BNP," new BNP secretary general Khanadker Delwar Hossain told reporters at his NAM flat residence Wednesday noon.
Asked whether the BNP is facing any leadership crisis after Khaleda Zia's arrest and expulsion of the two leaders, he said there had been no vacuum in the party as BNP leaders and the country's people are with the party.
The new BNP secretary general warned those who will respond to any call of Mannan Bhuiyan will have to face the same fate and urged the party workers to remain united so that all conspiracies to split the party could be crushed.
About Mannan Bhuiyan's expulsion, Delwar said Bhuiyan held frequent meetings even in the state of emergency, but Khaleda was not informed about the meetings." So there was a huge pressure on her from the party leaders and activists to expel Bhuiyan from the party."
Referring to Bhuiyan's claim that the expulsion was unconstitutional, the new secretary general said if the party cannot hold a standing committee meeting under any emergency situation, then as per the party constitution, the chairperson can expel anyone from the party.
Earlier, a group of BNP leaders and activists greeted their new secretary general with bouquets.
BNP joint office secretary Rizvi Ahmed, former MP Ashraf Uddin, Mahtab Uddin, Bilkis Jahan Shirin and Rehena Akther, among others, were present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, bdnews24.com adds: Deposed secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Wednesday asserted that only reformists constituted the mainstream of the BNP.
"We are the mainstream. We will take part in the next election by cleaning up the party," Bhuiyan said, two days after he was expelled from the troubled BNP by chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was arrested in a corruption case Monday.
He urged BNP leaders and workers not to veer away from the ideals of the late president Ziaur Rahman in an apparent show of political muscle-flexing.
"A letter signed by BNP joint office secretary Rizvi Ahmed has been sent to the EC to inform it that Mannan Bhuiyan and Ashraf Hossain no longer belong to BNP," new BNP secretary general Khanadker Delwar Hossain told reporters at his NAM flat residence Wednesday noon.
Asked whether the BNP is facing any leadership crisis after Khaleda Zia's arrest and expulsion of the two leaders, he said there had been no vacuum in the party as BNP leaders and the country's people are with the party.
The new BNP secretary general warned those who will respond to any call of Mannan Bhuiyan will have to face the same fate and urged the party workers to remain united so that all conspiracies to split the party could be crushed.
About Mannan Bhuiyan's expulsion, Delwar said Bhuiyan held frequent meetings even in the state of emergency, but Khaleda was not informed about the meetings." So there was a huge pressure on her from the party leaders and activists to expel Bhuiyan from the party."
Referring to Bhuiyan's claim that the expulsion was unconstitutional, the new secretary general said if the party cannot hold a standing committee meeting under any emergency situation, then as per the party constitution, the chairperson can expel anyone from the party.
Earlier, a group of BNP leaders and activists greeted their new secretary general with bouquets.
BNP joint office secretary Rizvi Ahmed, former MP Ashraf Uddin, Mahtab Uddin, Bilkis Jahan Shirin and Rehena Akther, among others, were present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, bdnews24.com adds: Deposed secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Wednesday asserted that only reformists constituted the mainstream of the BNP.
"We are the mainstream. We will take part in the next election by cleaning up the party," Bhuiyan said, two days after he was expelled from the troubled BNP by chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was arrested in a corruption case Monday.
He urged BNP leaders and workers not to veer away from the ideals of the late president Ziaur Rahman in an apparent show of political muscle-flexing.