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Young-old divide peaks in BNP

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Tension between the old guards and the Young Turks are brewing in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and hampering the functioning of the government.
BNP sources said the young are interfering with almost all decisionmaking in the party and influencing government decisions on administrative, business and development issues, ignoring the old generation.
They said the old leaders, who are with the party since its launch or Khaleda Zia's joining, were not being consulted in the formation of committees of BNP and its front organisations.
The interest of the Young Turks is overwhelming. Whether foreign vessels will be exempted from
waiver certificates, who will be given with lease of gas fields, who will get the tender order for purchasing aircraft are all their concerns.
They try to line up vital postings in the administration, in BNP and its front organisations and the awarding of development work for its handpicked people, they alleged.
The conflict between the old and the young is stemming from 'personal gains', not from political ideology or party politics.
"The situation seems that people voted the BNP into office to make some people ministers, give business to some and unbridled authority to certain quarters," a BNP insider said.
A number of BNP policymakers said the "generation divide" crop-
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ped up during the last general elections and peaked during the cabinet formation.
They alleged that a section of the young leaders based in a former election office of the party is trying to grab everything following the October 1, 2001 general elections.
Several senior leaders and a few policymakers have also joined hands with them, they said.
Some BNP leaders said the tension was gradually snowballing and spilling over to the grass-roots levels of the party.
A number of senior ministers told The Daily Star that it became very difficult for them to run their ministries because of the youths' influence. They are controlling everything and forcing the ministers to tread their lines.
They said that secretaries, directors general and other important officials were being appointed and transferred keeping them in the dark.