Khaleda reelected BNP chairperson : We Wish Her Well
UNB, has reported that BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was yesterday reelected unopposed the party chairperson for a three-year term subject to scrutiny of her nomination paper.Khaleda Zia was reelected unofficially as no other candidate either collected or submitted nomination paper for contesting the election to the post of the BNP high command.The scheduled time to collect and submit nomination paper for contesting the election expired at 6pm today. BNP office secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on behalf of Khaleda Zia, submitted the nomination paper to returning officer Dr RA Gani at the party's Naya Paltan central office at 4:30 pm today. Earlier, on Tuesday, Rizvi also collected Begum Zia's nomination paper on her behalf. Assistant returning officer Abdul Mannan and member of the BNP chairperson election 2009 election commission Adv Sanaullah Mia were present during submission of the nomination paper. Rangamati district BNP president Dipen Dewan proposed Khaleda Zia's name in her nomination paper while convenor of Gabtali upazila BNP under Bogra district Aminur Rahman Talukder seconded it. Returning officer Dr RA Gani, assistant returning officer Abdul Mannan and election commission member Sanaullah Mia were present at the BNP's central office till 6pm, the last time of submission of the nomination paper.At 6:05 pm, Dr Gani said the time for submitting nomination paper is over and that is the end to the first step of the election procedure.Talking to UNB, Dr Gani said they distributed only one nomination paper and also received one. "The only one nomination paper was filed by Begum Khaleda Zia," he said. He said they will scrutinize the nomination paper at 12 noon tomorrow (Thursday) and submit it to the election commission soon after its withdrawal time at 5pm on Friday.Replying to a question, Dr Gani said they cannot declare the candidate unofficially elected as the election commission is supposed to do that.He, however, said they can only tell about the position of candidature on completion of all procedures.Adv Sanaullah Mia said the election commission will formally announce the results of the BNP chairperson election on December 8 at a closed door session of BNP Councilors.The national council will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
We congratulate Khalida Zia on her election as Chairperson of BNP. This new mandate will strengthen her hand It is also a better beginning of this political party which did not have regular election.We hope she will review her past policies and rectify what went wrong in the last few years .She had contributed a lot in the development of the country and protecting the independence and sovereigbty of the country.We hope she will do better if she gets people’s mandate in the next election.
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