A meeting of the National Standing Committee of the BNP’s highest policy-making forum has been held after the pre- and post-Eid closures. The meeting started at 7 pm on Thursday at the BNP chairperson’s political office in Gulshan and continued till 9 pm. According to Gulshan sources, acting chairman of the party Tareq Rahman from London also joined the meeting. However, the meeting was called off due to disagreement over Khaleda Zia’s release movement due to the party’s indecisiveness, sluggishness in walking the path, the national government’s refusal to take the initiative. Sources said that when Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury directly blamed Mirza Fakhrul for the party’s stalemate, there was an uproar at the beginning of the meeting. He said that a section of BNP led by Mirza Fakhrul was conspiring to release Khaleda Zia to avoid attacks and lawsuits instead of building a strong movement.
When Amir Khasru Mahmud made such an allegation, two parties were formed in the meeting. The situation was further aggravated when Amir Khasru alleged that the party was being deliberately weakened, reluctant to leave the leadership, and that the BNP was being threatened with destruction. In reply, Mirza Fakhrul claimed that Amir Khasru was the cause of division. Seeing such activities of the senior leaders of the party, Tareq Rahman observed silence on Skype at that time. The source also confirmed that Tareq remained silent with pride as he guessed the plight of the team. Expressing frustration over the BNP’s divisive and blaming politics, Tarique silenced Mirza Fakhrul and Amir Khasru.
At that time, Tareq said, you have spent the whole last 15 years blaming each other. You have put political pressure on the BNP to hold on to office. The situation has become like ‘the enemy of the house is terrible’. Now it seems that no one does BNP for Khaleda Zia. Everyone believes in the politics of exercising position and power. In the future, Tareq cut the line by calling for a well-organized and united meeting to be added online.
Asked about the chaos at the meeting, a BNP standing committee leader, who did not want to be named, said there was no discussion on any of the scheduled issues.There was some disagreement as there was discussion outside the agenda. In fact, the current situation caused chaos in the meeting. This has happened because no one can trust anyone in the political arena of disbelief.