Feud in Satkhira BNP intensifies

At a meeting of Shyamnagar thana BNP held at the party's office on Saturday, they urged the party high command to take action against Satkhira district BNP secretary Rahmatullah Palash and threatened to boycott him for non-compliance, party sources said.

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Serious disagreement between the two factions of district BNP has been prevailing, hampering party organisational activities, they said.

The meeting was held with joint convenor of Shyamnagar thana BNP Abdul Wahed in the chair.

It was addressed by among others former general secretary of district BNP advocate Syed Iftekhar Ali, its former organising secretary Samsuzzoha Bablu, GM Abdus Salam, Masudul Alam, Monsur Sardar, Mokbul Hossain, Iswaripur UP chairman Sadequr Rahman, Prof Abu Sayeed, Prof Mahbubul Alam, Akram Hossain and Azizur Rahman.

They protested and condemned the false allegations brought against district BNP President Habibul Islam MP and Syed Iftekhar Ali by Rahmatullah Palash at a press conference held on March 23.

To counter the allegations, former organising secretary of district BNP Samsuzzoha Bablu on March 24 held another press conference, where he refuted the allegations brought against.

The meeting adopted an unanimous resolution requesting the party high command to take action against Rahmatullah.

"The resolution will be sent to the party high command ", Abdul Wahed, who presided the meeting, told this correspondent.

"Utter frustration and discontent is brewing among leaders and activists due to the internal feud between the two groups. This will affect the party's next general elections if the feud is not removed soon", said a senior leader of the BNP's district unit seeking anonymity.

The BNP high command in November last year formed a new committee of Satkhira district BNP with Habibul Islam MP, Alhaj Abdul Jalil and Rahmatullah Palash as its president, vice president and general secretary by dissolving the existing committee headed by Abdul Jalil and Sayed Iftekhar Ali as president and general secretary.