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Acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday formally assumed the office of the chairman of the party.
The decision was made in an emergency meeting of the BNP standing committee at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office.
In line with the BNP constitution, the meeting was held to address the vacancy in the office of the chairman, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters after the meeting.
During the meeting, standing committee members unanimously elected Tarique the BNP chairman in line with the party constitution, he said.
The meeting also cancelled Tarique’s visit to northern Bangladesh, scheduled for January 11–14 at the request of the Election Commission, Fakhrul said.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, party standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Salah Uddin Ahmed, among others attended the meeting.
Tarique Rahman, the elder son of former BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to the country on December 25 after ending 17 years in forced exile in the United Kingdom, marking his homecoming with a historic reception attended by over 10 lakh people.
Tarique had previously been sentenced in several cases, including a life term, and faced numerous other charges, most of which were filed during the 2007–08 military-controlled interim government.
He was arrested in March 2007 and released on bail on September 3, 2008, after which he travelled to London on September 11 for medical treatment, and remained there.
Following the end of the Awami League’s 16-year rule on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising, the High Court acquitted him of all charges in all cases filed during both the interim government and the Awami League rule clearing the legal obstacles to his return.
– Input from New Age was used in this article.
