Subject: [ALOCHONA] BNP body proposes more power for chairperson

The chairperson of every party in Bangladesh has too much power without checks

and balances. This in turn created the minus two theory. It not the other way

around. Everyone knows this except for those who engage in 'hit and run'

commentary.

Even if there was no minus two theory party leaders still seek to consolidate

their stranglehold on their part via their agents and proxies - while pretending

to be victims of public demand.  Disgusting.

The last people to complain about too much power being vested in their party

leaders are traditional party operatives - like Mahathir. even if there was so

minus two theory.

The consolidation of politcial power in the personages of Hasina and Khaleda

means that the minus two theory is necessarily alive and taking its next shape.

Few things are as wretched and despicable as Bangladeshis defending the status

quo within their politcial parties.

Ezajur Rahman

Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Mahathir of BD <wouldbemahathirofbd@...> wrote:

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> usual reaction to   minus two  formula.

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> The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the

political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a

perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to

pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge

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> --- On Thu, 11/19/09, Ezajur Rahman <Ezajur@...> wrote:

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> From: Ezajur Rahman <Ezajur@...>

> Subject: [ALOCHONA] BNP body proposes more power for chairperson

> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com

> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:14 AM

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> BNP body proposes more power for chairperson

> Staff Correspondent Courtesy New age 16/11/09 

> The opposition BNP's sub-committee on the amendment to the party constitution

and the manifesto on Sunday night submitted a  40-point amendment proposal to the

standing committee consolidating the authority of the party chairperson.

>    The sub-committee convener, Tariqul Islam, also a vice-chairman of the

party, at a briefing in the party chairperson' s office at Gulshan said they had

submitted about 40 amendment  proposals to update the constitution in the light

of the present-day requirement and 'some bitter experience' of the past.

>    The committee members at the briefing declined to detail the proposals.

Tariqul only said the ideals and spirit of the constitution would remain

unchanged and there  would be some addition to some chapters of the constitution.

>    Joint secretary general Nazrul Islam Khan said they had proposed not to

allow a person to hold more than one post in any tier of the party. The standing

committee will evaluate the proposals and they would be placed in the national

council session for approval, he said.

>    Party insiders said the amendment proposals related to the election of

the secretary general

>    in the national council session and expansion of the central executive

committee.

>    Both the chairperson and the secretary general will, according to a

proposal, be elected by councillors and both of them will be elected for three

years, sources in the committee said.

>    The sub-committee has proposed formation of advisory  committees at all

tiers of the organisation, increasing the number of joint secretaries general to

11 and introducing five more divisional secretaries for women affairs.

>    Keeping in mind the October 29, 2007 meeting at the house of the

standing committee member Saifur Rahman, the  sub-committee proposed a provision

that will allow only the chairperson to convene standing committee meetings.

>    The proposals include expanding the central executive committee to 351

members from the existing 251 to incorporate more leaders into the central

level. All units of the party  will have new posts of secretaries for religious

affairs, freedom fighters' affairs, human resources affairs, law affairs, and

science and technology affairs.

>    If members of the party contest in any election in violation of the

party decision against candidates nominated by the party, they  will be expelled

from the party, the proposals said.

>    It also made it mandatory for activists to take permission from

respective committees for the use of portraits of the party founder, the late

president Ziaur Rahman, chairperson Khaleda Zia, and the party's senior  joint

secretary general Tarique Rahman in posters or leaflets.

 

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