The newly formed Dhaka city convening committee will see neither any change nor any power curtail, said party insiders.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia rather asked the committee leaders to work together burying the differences with a view to reorganising the party within the shortest possible time.
She also warned that if anyone tried to hinder the party activities tough action would be taken against him, said sources.
“Party chairperson expressed her confidence upon the newly formed convening committee,” Salahuddin Ahmed, joint convener of the committee, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Some media reported that Member Secretary of the newly formed Dhaka city convening committee Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel’s power will be curtailed as convener of the committee Mirza Abbas dislikes him.
He said at the starting of the meeting Khaleda asked Convener of the Dhaka city Mirza Abbas and Member Secretary Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel to sit beside her. As per tradition, Abbas chaired the meeting and Sohel conducted the meeting.
Khaleda for the first time sat with the newly formed Dhaka city convening committee leaders at her Gulshan office to expedite the reorganising process of the party.
Salahuddin Ahmed said Khaleda advised everybody to show respect to the seniors.”
Another Joint Convener Kazi Abul Bashar said the city unit committee meeting would be held on Wednesday at 12pm at the city’s party office and the next steps would be taken there.
On July, the 52-member Dhaka city convening committee was announced and it was assigned to form the full committee of the city unit and ward and thana committees within two month.
But due to the intra-party feud, the convening committee is yet to form any committee rather the conflict surfaced on the very first programme of the party when the leaders went to party founder Ziaur Rahman’s grave to place wreaths.
Party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Tariqul Islam, ASM Hannan Shah, Rafiqul Islam Miah, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, advisers to the BNP chairperson Abdul Awal Mintoo, senior leaders Amanullah Aman, Barkatullah Bulu, Abdus Salam, Abul Khayer Bhuyan, Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and other city unit leaders were present in the meeting.
The new committee was formed as the previous convening committee headed by party’s vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka failed to form the full committee and wage any movement in the capital.
