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Download PDF The pro-Saifur faction of BNP is pushing forward a new unity formula, urging its rival faction to accommodate Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah in the standing committee of the party.
Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, who is now mediating unification of the two rivals, yesterday discussed the proposal with Khandaker Delwar Hossain, the chairperson-appointed secretary general of the party, at the speaker’s Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban office.
According to the proposal, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, who was expelled by party Chairperson Khaleda Zia hours before her arrest last year, would have to be reinstated in the party and appointed as a member of the standing committee that would run the party in the chairperson’s absence.
Party insiders said Speaker Sircar yesterday invited Delwar to his office to discuss the proposal after Saifur Rahman and Bhuiyan, two top leaders of the splinter group of reformists, had requested Sircar over the phone to place their proposal to Delwar.
The meeting between the two leaders started at 2:45pm and lasted 45 minutes.
Delwar neither rejected nor accepted the proposal, saying that he did not have any objection to it as long as the detained chairperson of the party approves it, the insiders said adding that Delwar also reiterated his insistence on scrapping the standing committee’s decision taken on October 29 last year, before considering the new proposal.
Delwar earlier informed Saifur of his stance on the October 29 meeting when the latter made several phone calls to him, urging the need for holding discussions over the unity of the party.
On October 29 last year, a BNP standing committee meeting held at Saifur’s Gulshan residence appointed Saifur Rahman as acting chairperson and Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed as acting secretary general of the party.
During the same meeting, the committee also overturned Khaleda’s expulsion order of Bhuiyan, reinstated him in the party and appointed him as a member of the standing committee.
However, RA Gani, Chowdhury Tanveer Ahmed Siddique, Khandaker Mahbubuddin Ahmad and M Shamsul Islam — four of the standing committee members who attended the meeting, later claimed that they did not gather for any formal meeting on October 29 as it was only an informal tea party.
Maj (retd) Hafiz later held a secret meeting with Hannan Shah, adviser to the BNP chairperson, in a Gulshan house. Their meeting, however, failed to reach any understanding.
Acting Chairperson Saifur’s recent attempts to reach the senior pro-Khaleda leaders over phone were also unsuccessful.
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