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Whom does Moudud want to please? Rizvi

Tuesday, 16 September 2014


Senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed's comments in his recent book are 'unfortunate', the party's Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said, report agencies.
Hitting out at Moudud for making adverse remarks in his recently released book against the party interest , Rizvi on Monday called him a turncoat, dishonest and opportunist leader.
Describing Moudud's comments against the party and its top leaders as unfortunate, he questioned whom does the former BNP minister want to satisfy?
In a briefing at the Naya Paltan BNP headquarters, Rizvi touched on Moudud's career, which, he said, was marked by a switching of parties.
A lawyer by profession, Moudud Ahmed is a member of the BNP's Standing Committee, the highest policymaking body of the party.
In his book, 'Bangladesh Emergency and the Aftermath (2007-2008)', published on Saturday, the BNP leader has said that Khaleda Zia's only concern was the release of her two sons from prison during the Emergency.
"At that time, she was very much a mother rather than a political leader," says the book.
During the Emergency, Khaleda Zia was under pressure from the army-backed caretaker government to leave the country but she refused to sit across the table without the release of her two sons -Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko."
"She even did not go abroad for treatment because of her concern for her two sons," the book says.
Rizvi on Monday rebutted Moudud's claim.
"Khaleda Zia never compromised on the country and democracy. She did not leave the country for the sake of the people. There was pressure upon her, and that's why Tarique Rahman was tortured while being detained. A lot of senior leaders, including him (Moudud) were released then," he said.