Tarique first ever meets London BNP leaders
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
LONDON, May 10 (UNB): BNP's senior vice-president Tarique Rahman, who is undergoing treatment here since September 2008, held a long meeting with London BNP and Juba Dal leaders Sunday to discuss the political situation in Bangladesh, apart from organisational matters in the UK.
This was Tarique's first ever meeting with the party's UK wing since his arrival here on September 12, 2008 after securing bail in all the cases filed against him.
The meeting was held at the Ramna Plaza Restaurant owned by UK BNP president Kamar Uddin, in Southgate, a suburb in the North London borough of Enfield where Tarique resides. The meeting lasted nearly three hours from 2:30pm.
Sources present at the meeting told the news agency that the political situation in Bangladesh and internal groupings in the UK BNP and its front organisations were discussed. Tarique desired to hold more such meetings in the future, he added.
The sources said 40 to 50 present and former presidents and general secretaries of the BNP and Juba Dal attended the meeting. Among others, BNP leaders Kamar Uddin, Barrister Abdus Salam, Koisor Ahmed and Mujibur Rahman and Juba Dal leaders Niaz Ahmed and Sharifuzzaman Tapan were present.
This was Tarique's first ever meeting with the party's UK wing since his arrival here on September 12, 2008 after securing bail in all the cases filed against him.
The meeting was held at the Ramna Plaza Restaurant owned by UK BNP president Kamar Uddin, in Southgate, a suburb in the North London borough of Enfield where Tarique resides. The meeting lasted nearly three hours from 2:30pm.
Sources present at the meeting told the news agency that the political situation in Bangladesh and internal groupings in the UK BNP and its front organisations were discussed. Tarique desired to hold more such meetings in the future, he added.
The sources said 40 to 50 present and former presidents and general secretaries of the BNP and Juba Dal attended the meeting. Among others, BNP leaders Kamar Uddin, Barrister Abdus Salam, Koisor Ahmed and Mujibur Rahman and Juba Dal leaders Niaz Ahmed and Sharifuzzaman Tapan were present.