I suspect the plan is to free BNP from the grip of Khaleda-Tariq in any way possible.
The device being used now is determined pressure on Saifur Rahman.
Saifur Rahman will then preside over some reforms.
Then he will be forced into retirement.
It’s so obviously a dastardly plot. Thoroughly deserved!
I love it!
Regards
EC invites Saifur-Hafiz faction of BNP to dialogue
Courtesy New Age 6/11/07
The Election Commission on Monday sent an invitation to the Saifur Rahman-led faction of Bangladesh Nationalist Party for a dialogue on electoral reforms putting its seal on the decision of the October 29 meeting of party’s standing committee.
The EC did not take cognisance of the latest letter of the party’s Khandaker Delwar Hossain-led faction that explained the illegitimacy of the committee announced on October 29.
‘Considering the decisions of the October 31 [actually October 29] meeting of the BNP’s national standing committee as appropriate, the commission unanimously decided to invite the acting secretary general of the party, Hafizuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, to take party in the dialogue with the commission scheduled for November 22,’ Humayun Kabir, secretary to the EC secretariat said while reading out the decision of the commission.
Six members of the BNP standing committee and its expelled secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan had a meeting at Saifur Rahman’s Gulshan residence on October 29, labelling it as a meeting of the standing committee held as per the doctrine of necessity.
The meeting made M Saifur Rahman as acting chairperson and M Hafizuddin Ahmed as acting secretary general.
The EC secretary at the press briefing said that the commission had taken the decision after going through the party’s constitution and the letters – one on the appointment of Khandaker Delwar Hossain as acting secretary general expelling Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan from the BNP, and the other terming the expulsion as illegal, and a third on the decision of the standing committee meeting.
The EC in its resolution did not mention anything about a fourth letter, sent by Khandaker Delwar Hossain’s faction, which insisted that the meeting led by Saifur Rahman on October 29 was illegal according to the party’s constitution.
A delegation of the BNP led by party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser ASM Hannan Shah on Sunday submitted the last letter to the CEC explaining why the standing committee meeting was illegal.
Monday’s statement of the EC pointed out that the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia considered only one side of the provision while taking her decision in removing Mannan Bhuiyan.
‘It appears that chairperson had taken cognisance of a part of the clause of the party constitution while making the decision and ignored the other portion of the same clause on conducting a personal hearing. The commission thinks Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan was deprived of ‘natural justice’ in such process,’ the EC statement said.
Citing the party constitution the EC said that it considered that in the case of Mannan Bhuiyan’s expulsion, approval of the national standing committee should have been taken immediately.
The EC said it viewed that the obligation was met by the presence of seven of the 14-member standing committee meeting on October 31 [in fact October 29].
‘As three of the members are now detained and another member has expired, the attendance of seven members ensured the quorum for holding the meeting,’ the commission said.
The BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, expelled secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and joint-secretary general Ashraf Hossain the day before she was detained on September 3, for their ‘involvement in activities against the party’. The same day she appointed Khandaker Delwar Hossain the new secretary general. The BNP on September 5 sent a letter to the EC informing it about the latest changes in the party hierarchy. It also said the commission should contact the new secretary general for any official purpose.
On the other hand, the group led by Mannan Bhuiyan in a letter to the CEC on September 9 described Khaleda Zia’s action [expulsion of Bhuiyan and Ashraf] as a violation of the government restrictions on political activities. By the same token, they questioned Delwar’s appointment as the secretary general and requested the EC to make all correspondence with Bhuiyan.
After the October 29 meeting, another letter signed by Hafizuddin Ahmed was sent to the EC along with the resolution of the October 29 meeting which named Saifur Rahman and Hafizuddin Ahmed as acting president and secretary general respectively. The meeting also did not approve the expulsion of former secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan.
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