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Rancour grips BNP top policymakers

Staff Correspondent
Frustration has gripped a large section of top policymakers and leaders of the ruling BNP as they feel cornered within the party and many of them have started thinking of retiring from politics.
Party insiders said most of the top leaders have become inactive and are refraining from guiding party policy as 'Young TUrks'in the party are not giving them any scope to do so, ignoring their contribution and experience.
"A suffocating situation is prevailing within BNP for long and I think the days of senior leaders are numbered. We are totally ignored in all party affairs and it is time for us to quit politics with honour," said a top leader of the party on condition of
anonymity.
The situation has now taken a serious turn and senior leaders irrespective of their posts and positions have no authority to take any decision without the approval of Threque Rahman, eldest son of the party chief and prime minister, party sources pointed out
They said the Young TUrks led by Tarcque, senior joint secretary general of the BNP, have established absolute control over the party and eliminated all top leaders from all sorts of decision-making and other party activities.
"Senior party leaders are virtually acting as dummy. All party activities are now conducted and decisions taken without their knowledge. The prevailing situation is leading the party to a serious crisis," a top leader
told The Daily Star.
Sources mentioned many of the top leaders and ministers have started avoiding party programmes dominated by theYoungTurks.
Referring to the recent 11-daylong meetings of grassroots level party leaders, convened by Threque, and another meeting of Ziaur Rahman Foundation, several senior leaders said though such programmes are helpful for the party, they- finally turned into forums for praisingThrequc.
The Young TUrks in recent days have also started raising slogans to elevate Threque to the post of party secretary general, which the majority leaders and workers consider as an imminent danger for the BNP. There might be green signal from the party’s top leadership for raising such slogans, some leaders said.
They thought it would be wise for the Young TUrks to choose Tareque for chairmanship of the party when Khaleda Zia quits the post. But controversy may arise If the mother and son hold two topmost posts of the party.
"A sharp division between the old guards and young leaders of the party has clearly surfaced, requiring immediate intervention by the party chief before things go out of control," a top leader of the party said.