The National Awami Party (NAP Bhasani) has cut off ties with the BNP-led 19-party alliance as its leaders have failed to persuade the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to leave some vice-chairman posts in the upazila elections.
A day before making an announcement in this regard, the party along with some other organisations on Sunday formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club protesting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman’s claim that party founder Ziaur Rahman was the first president of the country.
However, the party claimed that they did not join the human chain programme.
When asked about the reason behind the decision taken by the NAP, BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony said he does not know anything about it.
Few months ago, Jatiya Party leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed joined the BNP-led 18-party combine and then it turned into a 19-party alliance.
At a press conference held at the National Press Club in the city yesterday, NAP President Sheikh Anwarul Haque said that they severed relations with the BNP-led alliance as his party was with the combine in name only.
“We are cutting off ties with the alliance to strengthen our party at grass roots level. We do not have any conflict with the BNP or any other party in the alliance,” he told the Dhaka Tribune.
The party was not getting proper evaluation from the alliance, the NAP chief said at the press conference.
