Kalyan Party seeks 5-day extension for filing nomination
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Major Gen (retd) Syed Mohammad Ibrahim's Bangladesh Kalyan Party (BKP) Saturday suggested extension of time by five days for filing nomination and pre-poll party registration, reports UNB.
Addressing the party's second representatives' conference at a city hotel, he said opportunity should be created for smaller parties alongside the bigger ones to participate in the December 18 parliamentary elections.
BKP acting secretary general Sadeq Ahmed Khan, Vice-chairman Iqbal Hassan Mahmud, Col (retd) Engineer Mustaq Hossain, Lt Col (retd) Enamul Huq, Forkan Ibrahim, Mufti Maulana Mahbubur Rahman Bin Noori and Abdul Gaffar, among others, also addressed the meeting.
A BKP release said nearly 600 delegates from 70 upazilas of 32 districts joined the conference.
Ibrahim called for allowing small and new parties to get registered within the framework of laws and suggested that time for party registration and filing nomination be extended by five days.
"Bangladesh is not the property of two parties or two alliances," he said, adding that there should be restraint in raising demands or making statements. He said there should be a limit to compromise or concession.
He demanded trial of the war criminals, saying the martyrs' soul will not rest in peace until the war criminals were tried.
On election alliance, Ibrahim said BKP has been working to form an alliance with parties having faith in values of liberation war, religion and communal harmony against extremism and militancy.
Meanwhile, a rebel group of Kalyan Party claimed Abdul Hannan Mollah Palash as acting chairman and recently-sacked SM Abul Kalam Azad as secretary general of the party.
They said Kalyan Party chairman Ibrahim was expelled from the party on charge of "anti-organisational activities, falsehood and embezzlement of party funds".
The dissidents claimed that the decision of expulsion was taken in a meeting of the central committee at its temporary office.
Reacting to this move, a spokesman for BKP said the people of the country know Gen (retd) Ibrahim who does not like to get engaged in "mudslinging".
Addressing the party's second representatives' conference at a city hotel, he said opportunity should be created for smaller parties alongside the bigger ones to participate in the December 18 parliamentary elections.
BKP acting secretary general Sadeq Ahmed Khan, Vice-chairman Iqbal Hassan Mahmud, Col (retd) Engineer Mustaq Hossain, Lt Col (retd) Enamul Huq, Forkan Ibrahim, Mufti Maulana Mahbubur Rahman Bin Noori and Abdul Gaffar, among others, also addressed the meeting.
A BKP release said nearly 600 delegates from 70 upazilas of 32 districts joined the conference.
Ibrahim called for allowing small and new parties to get registered within the framework of laws and suggested that time for party registration and filing nomination be extended by five days.
"Bangladesh is not the property of two parties or two alliances," he said, adding that there should be restraint in raising demands or making statements. He said there should be a limit to compromise or concession.
He demanded trial of the war criminals, saying the martyrs' soul will not rest in peace until the war criminals were tried.
On election alliance, Ibrahim said BKP has been working to form an alliance with parties having faith in values of liberation war, religion and communal harmony against extremism and militancy.
Meanwhile, a rebel group of Kalyan Party claimed Abdul Hannan Mollah Palash as acting chairman and recently-sacked SM Abul Kalam Azad as secretary general of the party.
They said Kalyan Party chairman Ibrahim was expelled from the party on charge of "anti-organisational activities, falsehood and embezzlement of party funds".
The dissidents claimed that the decision of expulsion was taken in a meeting of the central committee at its temporary office.
Reacting to this move, a spokesman for BKP said the people of the country know Gen (retd) Ibrahim who does not like to get engaged in "mudslinging".