Staff Correspondent
Narsingdi BNP leaders on Wednesday jostled in front of the party’s central office in Dhaka over the presence of followers of the expelled party secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan during the interview with grassroots leaders.
The leaders and activists of Narsingdi, home district of Mannan Bhuiyan, chased some leaders who were known to be close to Mannan and both the groups had a brawl and chased each other. The senior leaders later controlled the situation.
The acting Palash unit BNP Nur Mohammad Bhuiyan said grassroots leaders did not accept the people who had acted against the party during its bad days and the incident was the reflection of their anger.
Abdul Hye Khan, who was president of the same unit before January 11, 2007, said the party was united under the leadership of Khaleda Zia, the BNP chairperson, and there should not be any branding like reformists or conformists.
After the brawl, the Dhaka division team leader, Abdullah Al Noman, also a joint secretary general of the party, said such incidents were unwarranted.
Earlier on Monday, a group of BNP activists of the Chandanaish unit, led by MA Hashem Raju, attacked the Chittagong south district unit president, Ahmed Khalil Khan, and the acting general secretary Sheikh Mohammad Mohiuddin for not inviting Hashem to the interview.
The BNP organisational committees on Wednesday interviewed leaders of Comilla and Narsingdi.
The interview began on February 3 and the committees will submit their reports by February 28. The committee for the Sylhet division completed interviewing grassroots leaders.
Leaders who came to face the committees were vocal against local leaders for inciting feuds.
They also informed the central leaders of the Awami League’s reprisal in their localities and many of them burst into tears as they described the violence.
Courtesy of www.newagebd.com
