Ehsanul Haque Jasim :
BNP’s central leaders have been enjoying their positions in the party’s central committees for years, but the party could not hold its national council though the stipulated time expired.
Even the deceased leaders are still ‘holding party’s posts!’ because none was co-opted as members. A BNP activist in funny mood called the party’s central leaders fortunate enough to hold the posts twice of the tenure.
Sources said, the BNP is unlikely to hold its sixth national council soon, because the district and upazila committees have not yet been reorganized..
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Thursday told The New Nation, the party has no plan to hold the council in near future.
The tenure of the current National Executive Committee of the party expired on December 8 in 2012, but the BNP has failed to hold its council session as per the constitution. The BNP’s constitution stipulates that the party will hold its council session once in every three years. The party held its fifth national council on December 8 in 2009. As per the Representation of the People’s Order (RPO), a political party needs to arrange its council in time after the expiry of the tenure of its executive committee.
In the last six years, many BNP leaders died, but the posts had not been declared vacant. The party’s standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was executed in November last, but his name is still in the list the party’s highest policy-making body. Wing Commander M Hamidullah Khan Bir Pratik, who got the post of Liberation War Affairs Secretary in the 2009 council, died on December 30 in 2011. But nobody was co-opted in the post. Like Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Hamidullah Khan, many posts of the party have remained vacant for years, said Rizvi Ahmed.
The post of secretary general became vacant in 2011 with the death of Khandaker Delwar Hossain. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been performing the duty of secretary general as acting secretary general since then. According to the party’s constitution, BNP Chairperson can appoint anyone to any post.
BNP earlier took initiatives for several times to hold the council, but failed to do it for some reasons, including internal feud and arrest of top leaders.
The BNP leaders have blamed the government’s ‘repression and oppression’ for its failure to hold the national council. BNP standing committee member Lt General (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said that they earlier took preparations for holding party’s national council several times, but they couldn’t do it due to obstruction by the government and arrest of party’s leaders.
Central and grassroots leaders and activists of the party want immediate reshuffle in the party’s leadership through the national council. The grassroots party men are fed up with the party’s high command for their failure in this regard, sources said.
In this circumstance, the BNP wanted to hold its council last year with the completion of council sessions at the grassroots level. The party had sent letters to all district committees to reorganise all committees by September in 2015. The party had planned to hold its national council session last November after the completion of reorganising the district committees, but the party could not reorganise even half of its district committees.
BNP still cannot form the full-fledged committee of its Dhaka city unit. The party could not form new and full-fledged committees of its front and associate bodies, including Chhatra Dal, Juba Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal, Mahila Dal and Krishak Dal, for internal feud. Meanwhile, 19 members of the standing committee are either ill or suffering from old age ailments.
According to a source, the party high command virtually does not want to hold national council soon, as they think it will intensify the party’s internal feud, which will spoil their plan to come back in the field of anti-government movement.
BNP’s central leaders have been enjoying their positions in the party’s central committees for years, but the party could not hold its national council though the stipulated time expired.
Even the deceased leaders are still ‘holding party’s posts!’ because none was co-opted as members. A BNP activist in funny mood called the party’s central leaders fortunate enough to hold the posts twice of the tenure.
Sources said, the BNP is unlikely to hold its sixth national council soon, because the district and upazila committees have not yet been reorganized..
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Thursday told The New Nation, the party has no plan to hold the council in near future.
The tenure of the current National Executive Committee of the party expired on December 8 in 2012, but the BNP has failed to hold its council session as per the constitution. The BNP’s constitution stipulates that the party will hold its council session once in every three years. The party held its fifth national council on December 8 in 2009. As per the Representation of the People’s Order (RPO), a political party needs to arrange its council in time after the expiry of the tenure of its executive committee.
In the last six years, many BNP leaders died, but the posts had not been declared vacant. The party’s standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was executed in November last, but his name is still in the list the party’s highest policy-making body. Wing Commander M Hamidullah Khan Bir Pratik, who got the post of Liberation War Affairs Secretary in the 2009 council, died on December 30 in 2011. But nobody was co-opted in the post. Like Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Hamidullah Khan, many posts of the party have remained vacant for years, said Rizvi Ahmed.
The post of secretary general became vacant in 2011 with the death of Khandaker Delwar Hossain. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been performing the duty of secretary general as acting secretary general since then. According to the party’s constitution, BNP Chairperson can appoint anyone to any post.
BNP earlier took initiatives for several times to hold the council, but failed to do it for some reasons, including internal feud and arrest of top leaders.
The BNP leaders have blamed the government’s ‘repression and oppression’ for its failure to hold the national council. BNP standing committee member Lt General (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said that they earlier took preparations for holding party’s national council several times, but they couldn’t do it due to obstruction by the government and arrest of party’s leaders.
Central and grassroots leaders and activists of the party want immediate reshuffle in the party’s leadership through the national council. The grassroots party men are fed up with the party’s high command for their failure in this regard, sources said.
In this circumstance, the BNP wanted to hold its council last year with the completion of council sessions at the grassroots level. The party had sent letters to all district committees to reorganise all committees by September in 2015. The party had planned to hold its national council session last November after the completion of reorganising the district committees, but the party could not reorganise even half of its district committees.
BNP still cannot form the full-fledged committee of its Dhaka city unit. The party could not form new and full-fledged committees of its front and associate bodies, including Chhatra Dal, Juba Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal, Mahila Dal and Krishak Dal, for internal feud. Meanwhile, 19 members of the standing committee are either ill or suffering from old age ailments.
According to a source, the party high command virtually does not want to hold national council soon, as they think it will intensify the party’s internal feud, which will spoil their plan to come back in the field of anti-government movement.
