Awami League leaders yesterday said BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury had resigned from the party for the destructive politics of Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman.
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said Khaleda had been plotting against the government and the country but the conspiracies would not work.
“Rather, the BNP will break into pieces and more top BNP leaders would leave the party soon for Khaleda’s wrong politics,” he told a news conference at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s political office in the capital’s Dhanmondi.
Hanif said more BNP leaders would resign if Khaleda and Tarique continued to hatch anti-state conspiracies and to favour violence in politics along with its ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
“Khaleda is plotting against the government in London. Her conspiracies have already been exposed and none of those will be successful,” said the Awami League leader.
He said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman initiated the practice of breaking away from a party but the Awami League does not believe in such destructive politics.
Meanwhile, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said Shamsher Mubin’s resignation was a reflection of Khaleda’s destructive and negative politics, and also the consequence of poor politics.
“As her [Khaleda] destructive and violent politics failed, she began to hinge on her foreign masters but failed there too,” Quader said while addressing a programme in Noakhali.
Awami League Publicity and Publications Secretary Hasan Mahmud told a human chain in front of the National Press Club said more BNP leaders will say goodbye to Khaleda.
Shamsher Mubin publicly announced his resignation from politics on health grounds on Thursday.
He tendered his resignation to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday.
