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3 feuding Sylhet MPs say sorry to Saifur

Term their tirades media-created

Staff Correspondent
Three ruling BNP MPs of Sylhet, who recently got into a feud with the finance minister, yesterday apologised unconditionally for their conduct.
The three MPs -- Ilias Ali, Syed Makbul Hossain and Shafi Ahmed -- went to the planning ministry office yesterday morning and sought apology to the Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman.
"We have met sir [M Saifur rahman].....and admitted our mistakes. Sir is our murubbi [guardian], we are young.....we can make mistakes," Ilias Ali told journalists after the meeting.
Ilias denied making abusive comments about Saifur and termed those comments "media-created".
Saifur Rahman, on the other hand, told the press, "The comments they [the three MPs] made about me do not fall into any political grammar. We do not use such language even when we talk about the Awami League leaders."
There is grammar in politics and all concerned should speak in that line, he added.
"They have met me and admitted their mistakes. As a senior minister I have accepted their apology," the finance minister said in a lenient tone.
"The feud had created a gap among the BNP leadership in Sylhet and we will have to sit again to remove this gap," he observed.
Members of the Standing Committee on the Finance Ministry, who met the finance minister yesterday, also expressed concerns over the feud.
"Saifur Rahman is not just an MP of Sylhet, he is the finance minister of the country and well known in the international arena. This feud has not only damaged BNP's image but also that of the country," they observed.
The trouble erupted after Syed Mokbul Hossain MP uttered some comments hitting the finance minister and his son Nasser Rahman MP at a rally in Beanibazar upazila on July 24 this year.
Comments from district BNP Convener M Ilias Ali MP against city BNP President Ariful Haque Chowdhury, who is believed to be the most trusted man to the finance minister also attributed much to make a different atmosphere in the region's politics.
Besides, the allegations that ruling party lawmaker Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury made in the parliament against the finance minister's APS Abdul Quaiyum Chowdhury, who is also the central Jubo Dal vice-president, added to the uneasy situation.
In a bid to quell the volatile situation, the finance minister intervened that led to the suspension of the activities of the BNP's Sylhet district committee on July 27.
In late last year BNP Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman formed the convening committee of the Sylhet district unit with Ilias Ali MP as the convener.
But that committee met serious opposition from the pro-Saifur local leaders.
BNP sources now hint that a fresh committee of Sylhet BNP may be formed soon through a compromise formula with Ilias remaining the head while a pro-Saifur man as the secretary.