Monday, December 21st, 2009BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday hinted at continuing his party's boycott of parliament session saying the atmosphere is not congenial to their return to the House."We will go to parliament once proper atmosphere is created. It is the government which has to do this to make the House effective," he said at a press briefing at the party central office at Nayapaltan in the capital.The ninth parliament goes into its fourth session on January 4 next year, and the main opposition party is boycotting the House since its second session.Delwar said the government move to rename Zia International ...
(read more) Thursday, April 23rd, 2009A parliamentary sub-committee yesterday revealed that former chief whip of parliament Khandaker Delwar Hossain had drawn a Tk 6 lakh medical bill flouting the law.The sub-committee probing allegation of corruption against Jamiruddin Sircar, former speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad, found that he 'illegally' and 'wrongly' approved the medical bill submitted by Delwar, now BNP secretary general, and another amounted to Tk 1.21 lakh by former deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui.The former speaker approved Delwar's medical bill ignoring government rules and the then premier Khaleda Zia's decision against it.The sub-committee would ask Jamiruddin Sircar, Akhtar Hamid and Delwar to return the ...
(read more) Monday, June 23rd, 2008Khandaker Delwar Hossain, secretary general of pro-Khaleda faction of BNP, yesterday urged the United Nations to investigate human rights violations in the country including alleged torture of Tarique Rahman, elder son of party chairperson Khaleda Zia."Everyone knows the human rights situation in the country. Tarique Rahman is now fighting death as his spinal cord has been damaged. But the government is not investigating the matter," he said urging the UN to initiate an investigation for collecting information."We are expecting the United Nation's interference in this regard," he said while addressing a discussion meeting organised by Shocheton Jubo Forum in ...
(read more) Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Pro-Khaleda faction of BNP yesterday rejected the government letter inviting them to participate in the formal dialogue, saying it did not address party secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain properly.Meanwhile Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed, acting secretary general of the pro-reform faction, accepted the government invitation for the talks Sunday night, though the letter made no mention of his designation.Rizvi Ahmed, acting office secretary of pro-Khaleda faction, said a Special Branch official carried the letter to Delwar's Nam apartment at about 9:30am.But Delwar regretted to accept the letter sent from the Chief Adviser's Office, as the authorities did not ...
(read more) Monday, April 28th, 2008Khaleda Zia-appointed BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday said the dialogue between the pro-Saifur faction and the Election Commission (EC) is part of a blueprint to exclude BNP from the election process."They [pro-Saifur faction] have been invited to the dialogue and they might even get the election symbol of sheaf of paddy but they will not be able to reach the people," Delwar told the press at his Nam flat."They will not be able to go to the constituencies with the election symbol as the people will give them a befitting reply," he said, adding that the Saifur-Hafiz group ...
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